Singing Quotes

• I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

  

  Monica
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Broadway

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

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Singing
  • Emotional

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

  

  Alex Winston
  • Music
  • 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

• 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 been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Energy
  • Reading
  • Dark

• 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 love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • Character
  • Singing
  • Journey

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

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Singing

• 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 dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Dream
  • Singing

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

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Good
  • Father
  • Singing

• 'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Different
  • Character
  • Interesting

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

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Doing

• 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

• One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

  

  Kesha Rogers
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

  

  David Johansen
  • Mind
  • Singing
  • Picture

• I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Remember
  • 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

• 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

• Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

  

  Lou Rawls
  • People
  • World
  • Good

1

...

34

35

36

37

38

...

92

previous

next