Singing Quotes
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Singing is something I do every day - not every other month. When I touch the mic, the same thing happens every time.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing in 'The Golden Circle' - I've never sung in a movie before.
Mark Strong
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Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
Colbie Caillat
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Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
Ellen G. White
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The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.
Kanye West
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The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
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Life is not just about singing.
Anna Netrebko
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I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.
Vanessa Marano
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I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
Margo Price
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In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.
Hedda Hopper
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I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.
Tina Weymouth
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Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
Francis Lee
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The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'
Ashley Monroe
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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
Maria Sharapova
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If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.
Daesung
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I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.
Ashley McBryde
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I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
Cassandra Wilson
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
Frank Ocean
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When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
Mike Posner
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When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.
Anita O'Day
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One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones