Singing Quotes

• Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Culture
  • Party
  • Singing

• There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Kings
  • Clip
  • Monica

• In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our house, a big, huge dance floor that we all dance on.

  

  Lisa Rinna
  • House
  • Singing
  • Dance

• I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Son

• I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Super Bowl
  • Anthem

• 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

• Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

  

  Chris Rock
  • American
  • Dance
  • Judging

• I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Believe
  • Spiritual
  • Compassion

• There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Earth
  • Alone
  • Passion

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Important
  • Orthodox

• I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Up
  • Time
  • Singing

• I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Singing

• If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Singing
  • Harmony
  • Concentration

• No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

  

  Amy Macdonald
  • Singing
  • Playing
  • Confident

• When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • People
  • Singing
  • Chess

• Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

  

  Colin R. Davis
  • Singing

• When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Singing
  • Luck
  • Sparkle

• One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dad
  • Singing
  • Potato

• I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • World
  • Song

• 'O, my!' he gasped, as he panted along, 'what an ass I am! What a conceited and heedless ass! Swaggering again! Shouting and singing songs again! Sitting still and gassing again! O my! O my! O my!'

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Singing

• I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Important
  • Singing

• The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Stop
  • Singing

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