Singing Quotes
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I'm never not singing.
Kyla Reid
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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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Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become famous I would maybe like to experiment with acting, or I have a good voice so maybe a little bit of singing. I'm going to take singing lessons, so who knows.
Autumn de Forest
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.
Ricky Martin
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Singing becomes a form of therapy.
Placido Domingo
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
William Ernest Henley
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As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.
Deeyah Khan
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire
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I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
Lou Gramm Foreigner
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
Tony Bennett
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I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.
Gene Watson
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
James Murphy
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Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.
Mark Burnett
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It's fun for me, and I love singing Arch Enemy stuff without clean singing, but I think it would be cool to introduce it. It's just a matter of if it feels right.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
Johannes Kepler
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
W. H. Auden
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After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
Lillie Langtry
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I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.
Chris Pine
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The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
H. G. Wells
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I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.
D.A. Wallach
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
Lydia Lunch
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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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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
Robert Wyatt