Singing Quotes

• Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Stuff

• 'Insatiable', the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur', rather than 'this is my singing career'.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • Done
  • Career
  • Entrepreneur

• At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

  

  Anna Maxwell Martin
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Competition

• I don't like singing before noon.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Singing

• 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
  • Father
  • Song
  • Dad

• Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

  

  Alfredo Kraus
  • Singing

• More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Taken

• I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

  

  John Cullum
  • Comedy
  • Singing

• Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Singing

• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Style

• I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Live
  • She
  • Sweet

• I hid my love in field and townTill een the breeze would knock me down,The bees seemed singing ballads oer,The fly's bass turned a lion's roar;And even silence found a tongue,To haunt me all the summer long;The riddle nature could not proveWas nothing else but secret love.

  

  John Clare
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Silence

• I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Stories
  • Cookies
  • Baking

• My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.

  

  Khalid
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

  

  Alex Winston
  • Music
  • Singing

• The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Believe
  • Singing

• Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Singing
  • Blues
  • Leaves

• Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Earth

• Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • World
  • Good
  • Singing

• I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up because it's your own commentary and you get to see the reaction from the audience that's right there in front of you. I also love coming up with characters and watching people embrace them and enjoy them.

  

  Kam Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

  

  Debra Messing
  • Mother
  • Singing

• I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Life
  • Singing
  • Road

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