Singing Quotes

• When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

  

  Burton Cummings The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Home
  • Singing

• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  

  David Nail
  • People
  • Job
  • Inspired

• The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

  

  E. B. White
  • Sun
  • Sea
  • Sky

• I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Heart
  • Singing

• I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

  

  JoJo
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Passion

• The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

  

  Jeffrey Osborne
  • Respect
  • Singing

• There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Singing

• I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • World
  • Power
  • Soul

• I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Singing

• I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

  

  Kathryn Prescott
  • School
  • Kids
  • College

• They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika
  • Girl
  • Church
  • Dog

• People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • Different
  • Wonder

• My 33rd springs to mind. We were in Omaha, NE, playing in the round with the whole place singing 'Happy Birthday' - I felt like I was standing on a huge birthday cake. Very weird.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Singing
  • Springs
  • Birthday Cake

• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Song
  • Angry

• I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Through

• I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • She
  • Guy
  • Song

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Night

• At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • Boys
  • Lips
  • Crowds

• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Hair

• I regained my courage because of the fans who showed their support, asking me to keep singing.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Support
  • Singing
  • Courage

• I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Singing

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