Singing Quotes · Page 68

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

— Mavis Staples

I started my acting career at around when I was getting stressed from my singing career.

— Seo In-guk

There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

— Thomas Rhett

It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.

— Sonu Kakkar

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

— Neil Young

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

— Ashley Roberts

“Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”

— The Script

I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and…

— Peter Tosh

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we…

— Charlotte Caffey

I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I…

— Idina Menzel

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to…

— Timothy B. Schmit

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it…

— Annaleigh Ashford

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love…

— Amy Poehler

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything…

— Lindsay Lohan

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's…

— Mary Travers

When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than…

— Tom Jones

As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I…

— David Essex

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do…

— Jose Carreras

I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this…

— Yukimi Nagano

I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and…

— Pamela Anderson

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel…

— Taylor Swift

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great…

— Steve Harvey

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a…

— Borns

If tears are the words that our heart use when its broken, then my heart is using music. I'm singing!

— Mousse

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

— Hank Williams, Jr

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

— Phil Anselmo

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

— Billy Idol

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

— Natasha Leggero

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

— Devon Bostick

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

— Marianne Faithfull

Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

— William Blake

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

— Nina Simone

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

— R. Kelly

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

— Brandi Carlile

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I started singing in my first band in 1992 so I'm coming up to 20 years in this business. That's a long time.

— Darren Hayes