Singing Quotes

• Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

  

  Norma Deloris Egstrom
  • Life
  • Music
  • Stop

• My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Business
  • Song
  • 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 just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

  

  Don McLean
  • School
  • High
  • Singing

• It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

  

  Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Enjoy

• After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Powerful
  • Couple
  • Inspired

• I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Song
  • Night
  • Hate

• I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Daily

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Deep

• I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued at the end of a phrase - the amount of respect I have for singers!

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Respect
  • Singing

• I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hate

• If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

  

  Odetta Holmes
  • Singing

• I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • High
  • Singing

• I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• We influence singing but never really songwriting.

  

  Charles King
  • Singing

• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Red
  • Wolf
  • Hood

• I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Why
  • Singing

• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Different
  • Singing

• Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Experience
  • True

• New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Country

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