Singing Quotes

• 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

• There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Singing
  • Road
  • Tired

• There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Air
  • Kitchen
  • Cleaning

• 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

• If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

  

  Anton Seidl
  • Feeling
  • Serious
  • German

• I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • School
  • Remember
  • Teacher

• 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

• I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

  

  Jessie J
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Crying
  • Comforting

• 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

• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  

  Buddy Guy
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• More people are asking me to come and sing for them, so obviously I am getting more work. But apart from singing, I have been parallely programming and producing music tracks and assisting music directors. That is my bread and butter, which is how I survived in Mumbai. Now I can't leave it.

  

  Arijit Singh
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Live
  • Heaven
  • Singing

• There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Singing
  • Now

• When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Boy

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Focus
  • Band

• I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

  

  Chris Brown
  • School
  • She
  • House

• Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Singing
  • Tired

• Singing gives me a lot of energy.

  

  Tove Lo
  • Energy
  • Singing

• Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Way
  • My Life
  • Now

• I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Reality

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