Singing Quotes

• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  

  Brett Somers
  • People
  • Singing

• My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Strong
  • Voice
  • Discipline

• I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Singing

• I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Music
  • Country
  • Age

• I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Singing

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Performance

• I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Taken
  • Singing

• Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Satisfy
  • Neighbors

• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Blue

• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Music
  • Song
  • Purpose

• I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Style
  • Singing

• I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Up
  • Great
  • Singing

• The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

  

  B. B. King
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Start

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Courage
  • Journey
  • Inspired

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Up
  • Music
  • American

• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Old

• I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Reed

• A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Things

• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Security

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