Singing Quotes

• I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

  

  Gene Watson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Singing

• 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
  • People
  • Singing
  • German

• I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Music
  • Parents

• Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Strong
  • Singing

• I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Bored

• Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Lost

• When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Heart
  • Singing

• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • Song
  • Dad
  • Singing

• I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Singing

• First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Focus
  • Singing

• I started singing the second I could utter sound.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Singing

• I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Singing

• I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Singing
  • Gym

• We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.

  

  Anatoly Berezovoy
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Kind

• I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• 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
  • God
  • Giving
  • Stop

• I really can't imagine not singing again.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Singing

• I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.

  

  Jimmy Napes
  • Singing

• Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Artist

• I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Teacher

• I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

  

  William Dunbar
  • Men
  • Morning
  • Quiet

• 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
  • Different
  • Singing
  • Heartbreak

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