Singing Quotes

• 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

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Sex

• My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Singing

• I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Live
  • Present
  • Singing

• My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Advice

• 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

• There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

  

  Billie Piper
  • World
  • Money
  • Happy

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

  

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

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Singing

• 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'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Faith
  • Singing
  • Attitude

• 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

• 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 don't think I'm a singer, I think I'm an expressionist. But it takes time to put it in people's minds that this guy is not singing, 'Baby, I want to have you.' This guy is actually thinking about what he's saying. This guy has something to say.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I started singing one day along with my cousin, and I didn't take it too seriously. The people started telling me, 'Hey, you have a nice voice.' and I was like, 'Really?'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Nice
  • Cousin

• To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

  

  Elliott Yamin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Character

• Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

  

  Katie Price
  • Time
  • Singing

• Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Work
  • Music
  • Amazing

• I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Singing

• 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

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