Singing Quotes

• My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Teenager

• I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Singing
  • Meditation
  • Area

• P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Today
  • Singing

• One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

  

  Frank Stallone
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

  

  Dennis Brown
  • Song
  • Singing

• I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Singing

• A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Life
  • Work
  • Song

• With dancing, I think the reason it's worked for me, and I love it so much, is because I've trained my entire life. Once you train, you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So I think, as I grow, I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Confidence

• I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

  

  Brit Marling
  • People
  • Singing
  • Birthday

• 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

• How sweet and beautifull is every place & I visit my old Haunts with renewed delight... nothing can exceed the beautiful green of the meadows which are beginning to fill with butter Cups - & various flowers - the birds are singing from morning till night but most of all the Sky larks - How delightfull is the Country.

  

  John Constable
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

  

  Adele
  • Good
  • Body
  • Feet

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

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Age
  • Discipline

• I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

  

  Angel Olsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Passion
  • Singing
  • Period

• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Son

• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Value
  • Beginning
  • Study

• Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Age
  • Past
  • English

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  

  Pauline Matthews
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Attention

• I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Singing

• One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

  

  Bronagh Gallagher
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

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

  

  Brenda Russell
  • Why
  • Singing

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