Singing Quotes · Page 51

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 started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found…

— Kina Grannis

After people work hard and cope with the pressures of life throughout the week, going out to a show or tuning in…

— Marty Stuart

I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing…

— Mark Strong

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go…

— Terry Bradshaw

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever…

— John of the Cross

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not…

— Vikram Seth

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

— Meredith Monk

I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice…

— Patty Griffin

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess…

— Bjork

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no…

— Jewel

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The…

— Marshall McLuhan

I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music…

— Jason Graves

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…

— Virginia Woolf

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to…

— Patrick Ness

Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at…

— Michael Longley

In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my…

— Iggy Pop

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

— Donavon Frankenreiter

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

— Cassandra Wilson

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

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

— Tessanne Chin

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

— Taryn Manning

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

— Antoine Arnault

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

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Stan Lee

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

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

— Amy Jackson

It's Rachel! Singing her Cover on Youtube. HAHA! Peace candy. You look cute on that pic ! :P :)

— Anonymous