Singing Quotes

• I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

  

  Judy Collins
  • House
  • Passion
  • Coffee

• Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Reading
  • Singing
  • Angel

• The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Music
  • Meaning
  • Good Voice

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

  

  Elizabeth Tan
  • Singing
  • I Love
  • Venture

• 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

• I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Thinking
  • Arms
  • Instrument

• The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

  

  Anthony Gonzalez
  • Life
  • Singing
  • Stage

• 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

• There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Singing
  • Days
  • Mountainous

• It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Drug

• The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Singing
  • Christmas
  • Cheer

• Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

  

  Choi Soo-young
  • Morning
  • Cartoon
  • Rhyme

• 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

• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  

  Amanda Seyfried
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• 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

• I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

  

  Michel Martelly
  • People
  • Singing

• You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

  

  Etta James
  • Business
  • Woman
  • Forever

• 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

• If I cannot fly, let me sing.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Singing

• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  

  Homer
  • Singing
  • Laughing
  • Dancing

• Where the hell are the singing cats?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Singing
  • Cat
  • Hell

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

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Singing
  • Kiss

• 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

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