Singing Quotes
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I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
Janel Parrish
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There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
Don Cornelius
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When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.
Loleatta Holloway
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In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
Amish Tripathi
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Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
Lord Dunsany
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Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
Benjamin Clementine
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
Eric Whitacre
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My guitar and singing was my way of crying.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.
Margaret Atwood
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I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
Kris Kristofferson