Singing Quotes

• The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Country
  • Worry
  • Firsts

• Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Lyrics

• All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Singing
  • Instruments
  • VIolins

• Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

  

  B. B. King
  • Soul
  • Sad
  • Hands

• All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• 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

• I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • Up
  • Music
  • Singing

• I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Family
  • Singing

• I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Kind
  • Cat
  • Pops

• I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

  

  Sunidhi Chauhan
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Dancing

• I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

  

  Andra Day
  • School
  • Church
  • Band

• You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Movie
  • Recording Studio
  • Hold Out

• Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Singing

• I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Together
  • Singing
  • Sea

• I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Wish
  • Singing

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

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Tree

• Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Feels
  • Jazz
  • Obligation

• I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Beautiful
  • Picture
  • Audience

• I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard.

  

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Singing
  • Work Hard
  • Peak

• 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

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