Singing Quotes
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.
James Black
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I love singing fun songs; I've built a career on them.
Dierks Bentley
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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
Yannis Philippakis
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I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
Kevin Kline
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Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.
Nachman of Breslov
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It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
Linda Lavin
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I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.
Andrea Bocelli
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I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!
Bibi Bourelly
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I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.
Ralph Stanley
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The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.
Ailyn Perez
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Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.
Keith David
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I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.
Patti Smith
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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
Jon Secada
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I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.
Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
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I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.
Anna Netrebko
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I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.
Jake Peavy
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I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
Kelli O'Hara
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It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
Mike Posner
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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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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
Lea Salonga