Singing Quotes

• I can sing in various genres, but my heart truly lies in singing romantic songs. This has been my forte ever since I was 8 or 9.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Heart
  • Lies
  • Romantic

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • People
  • Singing

• When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• 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

• 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

• When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • 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 was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Broadway

• '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've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Acting

• He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Stupid

• 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

• Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Singing
  • Emotional

• I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Singing

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

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • College
  • Football
  • Singing

• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.

  

  Odysseas Elytis
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death

• A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun of.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • People
  • Fun
  • Singing

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

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Singing
  • Lion

• I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

  

  Chris Burke
  • Friends
  • Singing
  • Rain

• When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Song
  • Audience
  • Special

• I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Doing

• I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

  

  James Wolpert
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

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