Singing Quotes

• I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Voice
  • Obsession
  • Ancestor

• 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

• 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

• Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Singing
  • Joke

• I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Together
  • Singing

• 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

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

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Singing
  • Hopes
  • Profit

• Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

  

  Angie Brown
  • Singing
  • Audience
  • Stimulated

• Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Singing
  • Played
  • Musicals

• 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

• I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Wish

• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Help
  • Effort

• There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Singing
  • Emotional
  • Outlets

• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  

  Dan Barker
  • Real
  • Belief
  • Sunday

• Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane Fonda heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Remember
  • Singing

• 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

• During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.

  

  Daesung
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Happy

• In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Singing

• I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • School
  • Awful
  • YouTube

• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Time
  • Why
  • King

• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Chance
  • Television
  • Professionals

• If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Singing

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