Singing Quotes

• I wasn't even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Singing
  • Lion

• Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

  

  Lou Rawls
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Song
  • Style
  • Singing

• I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and everything, I just said, 'I can make jazz with R&B.'

  

  Billy Paul
  • Singing

• 'It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.' - source

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Pretty
  • Singing

• I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

  

  Anna Camp
  • School
  • Job
  • Singing

• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Man

• I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Dream
  • Singing

• When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• 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

• Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Job
  • Singing

• It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Singing

• I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Singing
  • Lyrics
  • Heartfelt

• There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Love
  • Freer

• To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Singing

• I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Inspiration
  • Girls
  • Dating

• I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Singing

• I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Sound

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Singing

• Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Light
  • Rock
  • Green

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