Singing Quotes

• College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • College
  • Football
  • 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

• You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

  

  Dennis Brown
  • Song
  • Singing

• 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 love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Tired

• You know what, I'm very interested in acting, but right now I'm busy promoting my album and going on tour because that's my first love, but I'm very interested in doing some parts that may come my way. I've been offered a few movie parts so far, but I have to really concentrate on singing. But it's something I'm interested in doing eventually. I haven't been offered a part that truly inspires me to take time off, though.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • May
  • Movie

• When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

  

  Burton Cummings The Guess Who
  • High
  • Singing
  • Car

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

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Help
  • Goal
  • Philosophy

• 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

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

  

  Alex Winston
  • Music
  • Singing

• 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

• For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Singing

• I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

  

  George Benson
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• 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

• 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

• There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

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

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Singing

• 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

• Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that's what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible.

  

  J Balvin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Singing

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