Singing Quotes · Page 39

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

— Mavis Staples

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

— Kevin Drew

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

— Mary Hunter Austin

Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

— Brett Cooper

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

— Tiffany Darwish

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

— Hoagy Carmichael

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

— H. John Poole

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

— Kate Bush

“That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing,…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing…

— Shura

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I…

— Leonard Cohen

I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands…

— Lee Ranaldo

I did classical singing at school. I did exams in that. I'd sing soprano, and we'd sing in German; we'd do Schubert…

— Jorja Smith

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But…

— Marina Abramovic

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after…

— Adam Levine

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own…

— Afrojack

My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is…

— Thomas Hampson

“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was…

— Salman Rushdie

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people…

— Olivia Newton-John

Singing? I've never done anything. Seriously, up to this point, I wouldn't even go karaoking with my friends. I would never sing…

— Cory Monteith

I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it…

— Jamie Lidell

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them.…

— Russell Peters

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living…

— Kassie DePaiva

My version of lip-synching is singing full-out with the track.

— Megan Hilty

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

— Donna Jo Napoli

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her…

— Christina Aguilera

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

— Mariah Carey

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

— Katie Melua

I was a part of my school choir and used to participate in several singing competitions back then.

— Raashi Khanna

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...

— Lauren Oliver

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

— Rolf Harris

The first song I ever sang was 'Angel of Music,' and I haven't stopped singing since.

— Lea Michele

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

— Laura Benanti

I regained my courage because of the fans who showed their support, asking me to keep singing.

— Jessica Jung

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

— Anne Lamott

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

— Rudyard Kipling

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

— Bryson Tiller

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

— Taraji P. Henson

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.

— Mabel