Singing Quotes · Page 26

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

— Leighton Meester

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

My singing voice has sort of an Ethel Merman-type quality: just, like, loud and strong and full.

— Beanie Feldstein

Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.

— Tevin Campbell

“I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.”

— Mick Jagger

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

— Cecilia Bartoli

“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.

— Syesha Mercado

Sometimes I think what it might be like if I stayed in the background and was just singing in a choir somewhere.…

— Tevin Campbell

Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without…

— Tom Fletcher

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

— Coco Lee

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing…

— Ed Helms

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got…

— Elvis Presley

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that…

— Lisa Stansfield

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

— Emma Stone

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and…

— Vusi Mahlasela

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed.…

— Jim Breuer

Before I cook, I always have to put on music that parents listened to while cooking. I remember waking up in the…

— Diane Guerrero

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed…

— Zola Jesus

I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood,…

— Andrea Bocelli

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold…

— Gayle Forman

In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the…

— Mariah Carey

Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and…

— Dweezil Zappa

Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or…

— John Wesley

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

— Post Malone

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I…

— Gladys Knight

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

— Jeremy Riddle

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

— La'Porsha Renae

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

— Kacey Musgraves

“There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.”

— Deke Sharon

Instead of singing hard rock, I could just as easily be singing 'The Fantastiks' or 'Pajama Game' somewhere.

— Jani Lane

When more than 45,000 people are singing the French national anthem, it does drive you forward.

— Wendie Renard

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

— Michael Bolton

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

— Frank Sinatra

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

— Lyriq Bent

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

— Jane McDonald

I realized I could do singing impressions when I was 12 years old, first being Britney Spears.

— Melissa Villasenor