Singing Quotes
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My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.
Kurt Elling
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There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
Jeff Buckley
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I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.
Alessia Cara
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When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.
Laura Story
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'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.
Sia LSD
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In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
Lucinda Williams
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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
Carmen Cusack
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Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
Genesis P-Orridge
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
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I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!
Bonnie Raitt
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Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.
Willam Belli
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Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
Al Jarreau
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I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
Lindsay Lohan
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
Roger Daltrey The Who
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There are definitely some songs you sing and you just know there's something about it - there's kind of a touch on it that's different. But there are no rules to that. Every time, it's a surprise and it's humbling to hear that people are singing the songs in different places and different parts of the world. We're always amazed by that.
Reuben Morgan
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
Cassandra Wilson
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I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.
Lindsay Lohan
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Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
Alessia Cara
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I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.
Maria Canals Barrera
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I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.
Jose Carreras