Singing Quotes
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That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
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I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!
Jaclyn Victor
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I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
Stephen Spender
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For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
Louise Erdrich
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When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.
Brenton Brown
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I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.
Celine Dion
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Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.
Janet Jackson
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
Tony Bennett
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As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.
Euzhan Palcy
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People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?
Eddie Argos
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
Merle Haggard
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'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'
Tommy Cooper
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And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.
Reba McEntire
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Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.
Joe King The Fray
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We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
Mariah Carey
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
Etta James
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Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
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Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
Molly Ringwald
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I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish
Terry Bradshaw
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I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.
Sharon Jones