Singing Quotes

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Singing

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Thought

• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Up
  • Music
  • American

• Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

  

  John Updike
  • Good
  • Singing

• The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Singing
  • Auto

• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• I can't even remember the first time I started singing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Singing

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Life
  • Time
  • Singing

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • See
  • White

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Sometimes
  • Feels
  • Trouble

• When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Lost
  • Singing
  • Look

• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Security

• Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Going

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Things

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Loved

• Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldiesBe-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I SayHere comes Johnny singing I Gotta WomanDown in the tunnels, trying to make it pay.He got the action, he got the motionOh yeah the boy can play.Dedication, devotionTurning all the night time into the day.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Night

• Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Singing
  • Wonder

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