Singing Quotes

• When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Drummer
  • Bass
  • Hats

• I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.

  

  Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
  • Remember
  • Race
  • Standing

• When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Singing
  • All You Need Is Love

• I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Singing

• 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

• 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

• After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing.

  

  Aselin Debison
  • Singing
  • Emotional
  • Might

• I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

  

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

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Singing

• 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

• 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

• If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place.

  

  Estelle
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Supposed

• The amount of hot girls who come to signings is incredible!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Singing
  • Girls
  • Incredible

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Singing was something I only did at family functions, but I never took it seriously.

  

  Anthony Ramos
  • Family
  • Singing
  • Seriously

• I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

  

  Elizabeth Tan
  • Singing
  • I Love
  • Venture

• I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • People
  • Know
  • Singing

• Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Fire

• It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Beautiful
  • Morning
  • Orange

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

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Singing
  • Nervous
  • Sweat

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