Singing Quotes

• The vocal parts are really interesting because it's the first album that we - as a band - haven't been aware of what Thom's singing about. He didn't talk about his lyrics.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Singing
  • Album
  • Vocal Parts

• I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Voice
  • Learned
  • I Think

• 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

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

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Remember
  • Singing

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

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Singing

• Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Sweet
  • Soothing
  • Brooks

• It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Band
  • Taken
  • Rock

• Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People
  • Live
  • Fun

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

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• 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
  • Live
  • Age
  • Famous

• Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • World
  • Family
  • Joy

• Singing songs that make you slit your wrists.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Make
  • Wrists
  • Slit

• I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Rap
  • Legend
  • Dope

• Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Past
  • Singing
  • Drinking

• 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
  • Up
  • Words
  • Singing

• 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 am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Age
  • Christian
  • Singing

• 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

• If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Money
  • Singing

• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Church
  • Never
  • Musician

• I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

  

  Lou Gramm Foreigner
  • Singing

• I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Thinking
  • Influence
  • Natural

• 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
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Death

• I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Done
  • Singing
  • Famous

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