Singing Quotes

• For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• 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 still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Prize

• Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Singing

• Maybe I should try singing like a man.

  

  James Blunt
  • Singing

• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Singing

• I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Character
  • Serious

• 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

• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Song
  • Words
  • Inspiration

• '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 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

• I'll keep singing 'till I die.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • Singing
  • Dies

• I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

  

  Ali Akbar Khan
  • Music
  • Important
  • Singing

• My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

  

  Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
  • Writing
  • She
  • Together

• I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Progress

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Study

• I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

  

  Alex Winston
  • Music
  • Singing

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • She
  • Mother
  • Same

• When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Music
  • Women
  • Together

• It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Song
  • Night
  • Singing

• There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album. There's a big universe out here, and I don't want to just sing to the church. I want to sing to the world and bring them a message of love. I love going to church and singing gospel songs, but right now there's a message that the world needs.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • World
  • Church
  • Universe

• I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Good
  • Father
  • Singing

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