Singing Quotes

• I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Hated
  • Crowds
  • Fronts

• 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

• I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Music
  • Be kind

• But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • Long
  • Singing

• I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Friends
  • Church
  • Study

• I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Song
  • Singing

• I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • College
  • Teacher
  • Cry

• I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Singing

• I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Age
  • Discipline

• 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 don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Talent

• 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

• There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Acting
  • Dancing
  • Performing

• There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moving

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

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Advice

• Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People
  • Singing

• Ariana Grande was on a TV show, and then she started her career singing. If I'm offered a TV show, I'm going to pursue that and then see if I can push my singing. And then if I push my singing, awesome. My biggest goal, though? Be an actress in movies. I would love to have a career like Meryl Streep's someday.

  

  Lele Pons
  • She
  • Career
  • Awesome

• The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Moving

• Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Wells

• I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

  

  Keith David
  • Singing

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