Singing Quotes · Page 38

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

— Kathleen Hanna

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

— Linda Ronstadt

I've been passionate about singing for as long as I can recall.

— Chinmayi

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

— Neil Diamond

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

— Kim Gordon

The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!

— Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

— Katie Stevens

I have to thank the fans very much for singing my name. Really, I respect it a lot.

— Mohamed Salah

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented…

— Jack Gould

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

I can sing in various genres, but my heart truly lies in singing romantic songs. This has been my forte ever since…

— Armaan Malik

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.…

— Jessye Norman

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I…

— Ellie Goulding

I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last…

— John Kennedy Toole

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I am very much available for singing. There's a misconception that I am too busy with my acting ventures, but, I think,…

— Andrea Jeremiah

I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel…

— Daya

I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't…

— Richard Roxburgh

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed…

— Maurice Sendak

“The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing…

— Barbara Hambly

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later…

— Thom Yorke

A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that…

— Jeffrey Lewis

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and…

— Stevie Wonder

When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be…

— Trace Adkins

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

— Jennifer Hudson

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

— Rose

If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.

— Margarita Simonyan

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

— Terry Pratchett

I can hear someone singing, but I can't identify exact words.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

— Amit Trivedi

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

— Oscar Wilde

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

— Tom Petty

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

— Skylar Laine

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

— Roger Bannister

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

— Vanessa Hudgens

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

— Mandy Patinkin

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

— Emily Blunt

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

— Josh Ritter

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

— William Dean Howells