Singing Quotes · Page 32

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

— Barbra Streisand

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

— Tommy Shaw

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

— Bob Dylan

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

— Taryn Manning

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

— Tessanne Chin

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

— Stan Lee

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy.…

— Juliette Lewis

I am open to playback singing, but only if my acting schedule permits. I would love to sing for myself in my…

— Shruti Haasan

Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by…

— Hutch Harris

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will…

— Charles Demuth

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He…

— Arthur Godfrey

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle…

— Eric Whitacre

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times,…

— Chinmayi

“For weeks Charlie had been singing the same song over and over again. “Dinah won’t you blow…” He sang it twenty-four hours…

— Neal Shusterman

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,…

— Sara Teasdale

I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce. She's like number 1…

— Charice Pempengco

The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big…

— Josh Groban

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop…

— Lydia Lunch

That's how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it…

— Donavon Frankenreiter

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the…

— Charlie Hunnam

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

— Roger Daltrey

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

— Malcolm X

For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

— Steven Wright

If I'm singing powerfully, I need something powerful behind me so that I don't feel like I am left alone.

— Tarja Turunen

If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.

— Cynthia Erivo

I'm very surprised at my success as a singing star because I can't sing a lick.

— Divine

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

— Georgia Holt

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

— Jeff Daniels

Just because you see me singing up on a stage doesn't mean I don't have real life behind it.

— Bea Miller

In the past my career emphasized variety, singing, dancing and only some acting.

— Joey Heatherton

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

— Tony Bennett

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

— Gavin Creel

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

— Cathy Rigby

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

— Justin Timberlake

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

— Christina Milian

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

— Shenae Grimes