Singing Quotes
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I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
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Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.
Thomas Hood
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When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.
Ashley McBryde
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
Dean Wareham
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Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.
Kurt Elling
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There's nothing like being in front of a live audience and getting that vibe from them, and I love people to join in the singing, and I love people to clap their hands.
Colm Wilkinson
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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
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If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' in the living room. Then, I guess, just by the grace of God I started writing songs, and somebody happened to like them.
Thomas Rhett
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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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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
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Everybody has ownership on the thing they’re singing on.
Matthew Vasquez
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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
Jonathan Demme
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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
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It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.
Erica Packer
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.
Paula Abdul
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All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.
Anthony Evans
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I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous.
Johnny Mathis
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If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.
Alexandra Petri
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I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.
George Strait
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Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
Emily Yoffe
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I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.
Channing Tatum
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I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'
Lindsay Hartley
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde