Singing Quotes · Page 69

“You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.”

— Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.

— Ari Lennox

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

— Nancy Sinatra

I mean, I really hung in there for as long as I could. I was working 18 hours a day on songs…

— John Waite

Showers: An activity in which one practices singing, makes life decisions, AND cleanses.

— Myself

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

— Richard Dawson

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

— Forest Whitaker

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

— Samantha Fox

For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's…

— Beth Moore

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the…

— Debra Messing

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast…

— Bobby Vinton

“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist.…

— Ricky Martin

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas,…

— Lisa Marie Presley

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the…

— Anonymous

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along…

— Anonymous

When we're ready to do the dress rehearsal, we'll rehearse in the dark. No lights. The reason why I do that is…

— Trombone Shorty

It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at…

— Andy Grammer

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then…

— Kesha

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible…

— Anonymous

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can…

— Langhorne Slim

Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached…

— King Krule

When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of…

— Mark Lanegan

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

— Walter Legge

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

— Cass McCombs

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

— Johnny Carson

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

— Pixie Lott

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

— Corey Hawkins

Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool.

— Gregory Porter

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

— Jose Carreras

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.

— Tony Bennett

That annoying moment when I start singing a song and people join in and I was like Did I invite you ?

— IMynatot

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

— Zooey Deschanel

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating…

— Shannon Purser

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I…

— Ruth Brown

I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting…

— Sarita Choudhury

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's…

— Ne-Yo