Singing Quotes
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No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!
Amy Macdonald
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When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
Kiran Ahluwalia
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Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
William Dean Howells
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I've been singing Rodgers and Hammerstein all my life.
Carmen Cusack
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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
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I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?
David Nail
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They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
Sarah Vaughan
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I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time with my children.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
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When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.
Jillian Hervey
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
Kelly Clarkson
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I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
Bryn Terfel
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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
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We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.
Jim Foglesong
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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
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One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.
Powers Boothe
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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
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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana
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The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.
H. John Poole
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First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.
Murray Head
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Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
Etta James
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Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.
Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
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It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
Bonnie Tyler
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde