Singing Quotes

• As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Singing

• I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Participation
  • Counts
  • Check

• 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

• Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Singing
  • Poetry

• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  

  William Hung
  • Silly
  • Dancing
  • Consistency

• It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.

  

  Freddie Stroma
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Song
  • Mood
  • Holiday

• I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Harmony

• I came to singing organically.

  

  Alice Smith
  • Singing

• I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Police

• Even if the production doesn't feel African, the vocal delivery - singing through your nose. Specifically, Highlife music from Nigeria. That was the first music I ever heard as a child. So singing through my nose is something I do often, and that's directly rooted in my heritage.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Music
  • Singing

• Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Singing
  • Hopes
  • Profit

• Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Worry

• I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

  

  Aprilynne Pike
  • Good
  • Music
  • Singing

• When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Time
  • Song
  • Listening

• 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

• Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Singing

• I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Song
  • Night
  • Singing

• Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • American
  • Die

• We got famous off singing about a chicken.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Singing
  • Chickens

• I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• There are situations when, in your singing, in your interpretation of songs, for instance, when you want a straight tone. And I have to work really hard at getting a straight tone... That's sort of like if you have curly hair, you have curly hair.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hair

• I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Age
  • Christian
  • Singing

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