Singing Quotes
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I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
Jill Scott
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
Mandy Patinkin
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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
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It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.
Jamie Lynn Spears
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
Janet Jackson
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I grew up singing in a church choir.
John Grant
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Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
Louise Erdrich
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Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.
Amanda McBroom
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
Joe Strummer The Clash
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My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
Ofra Haza
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Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
Celia Cruz
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Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Janel Parrish
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I've always been singing. Ever since I can remember, I've been singing.
Ella Mai
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
Andrea Bocelli
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I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.
Glen Campbell
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Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.
Andrea Bocelli
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
Joan Baez
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I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.
Auli'i Cravalho
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
Marvin Sapp
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When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.
Deborah Joy Winans
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I won my first singing award with 'Auliya.'
Armaan Malik
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When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.
Daesung