Singing Quotes

• My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

  

  Tori Kelly
  • Remember
  • House
  • Moments

• I don't have a nice singing voice! Particularly if I've had a few beers, that's when I'll get up and go on the karaoke. I'll usually try to murder a Frank Sinatra song like 'My Way'. In my head I sound exactly like him, but when you watch the footage back, evidently not!

  

  Danny Miller
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Singing

• I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Singing

• I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.

  

  Carl Gardner
  • Singing
  • Talent
  • Singers

• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Singing
  • Playing
  • Drums

• Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  

  Steve Earle
  • School
  • Kids
  • Grammar

• I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Singing
  • Singers

• With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important.

  

  Nicole Atkins
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Singing

• That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Face
  • Human Mind
  • Hooks

• I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Careers
  • Agreement
  • Mutual

• I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Singing
  • Nervous
  • Sweat

• We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Singing
  • Tears
  • Shabba

• A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Singing
  • Kiss

• I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Singing
  • Summer
  • Bored

• Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Singing
  • Minors
  • Sparrows

• Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.

  

  Kiersten White
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Angry

• The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Singing
  • Musically

• A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • People
  • World
  • Singing

• I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.

  

  Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Different
  • Children
  • Poor

• I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • School
  • Voice
  • Blake

• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Trying

• When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • School
  • Lot
  • Chorus

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