Singing Quotes

• When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

  

  Peter Sis
  • People
  • Singing

• When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Good
  • Family
  • Crazy

• It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Singing

• I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.

  

  Jimmy Napes
  • Singing

• They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

  

  Audie Murphy
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Singing

• We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

  

  Al Barr
  • Singing
  • Grateful
  • We Do

• Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Singing

• I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Hours

• Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Singing
  • Drama

• Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Singing
  • Listening

• 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
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Wrong

• I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Song

• I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing... and not much singing.

  

  Satya Bhabha
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Bollywood

• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Soul
  • Spirit
  • Tree

• Good singing is learning how to transmit learning musical information with your voice in a way that everybody can relate to. But as a woman you just get a lot of criticism because everyone sees you like a raw lump of clay that needs some help.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • Voice
  • Information
  • Relate

• I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Space

• For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

  

  Anna Camp
  • School
  • College
  • Singing

• Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?

  

  Rita Ora
  • Music
  • Why
  • Forever

• The air is bright with hues of light And rich with laughter and with singing: Young hearts beat high in ecstasy, And banners wave, and bells are ringing: But silence falls with fading day, And there's an end to mirth and play. Ah, well-a-day!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • High
  • Light
  • Air

• We got famous off singing about a chicken.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Singing
  • Chickens

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

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