Singing Quotes

• As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

  

  Elle Varner
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Singing

• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • House
  • Song

• I'll keep singing 'till I die.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • Singing
  • Dies

• I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Children
  • Career
  • Lyrics

• It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics - about whatever they're about.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • She
  • Age
  • Beautiful

• If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Singing
  • Accountants

• My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• 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

• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rap

• I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic!

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Singing

• 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

• Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Fall
  • Singing

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Soul

• I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I still havent got over the fact that I wont be the only person seeing the film. Im used to watching home videos of when I was little, singing Barbie Girl and stuff, and nobody sees them except the family. Now, there will be loads of people going to see The Golden Compass. At least, we hope they will.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Good
  • Singing

• I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.

  

  Darren Criss
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Singing

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Song
  • Alone
  • Silence

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