Singing Quotes · Page 45

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

— Eric Clapton

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

— Frank Sinatra

When more than 45,000 people are singing the French national anthem, it does drive you forward.

— Wendie Renard

Instead of singing hard rock, I could just as easily be singing 'The Fantastiks' or 'Pajama Game' somewhere.

— Jani Lane

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

— Michael Bolton

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as…

— Gregory Harrison

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

— Ann Patchett

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house,…

— Bonnie Tyler

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but…

— Idina Menzel

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not…

— Phil Everly

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when…

— Patsy Cline

I cannot really recall when I faced stage fear because I started so young. It's my natural habit. But you know, I…

— Neha Kakkar

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest…

— Zoltan Kodaly

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…

— David Abram

I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm…

— Jim Cummings

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion…

— David Levithan

What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing…

— Nick Heyward

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life…

— Marianne Williamson

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other…

— A. R. Rahman

When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I…

— Jeanette Winterson

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back…

— Dante Alighieri

Singing and dancing is the greatest diet in the history of the planet.

— Hugh Jackman

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

— Joss Whedon

Singing on Broadway terrified me more than anything I've done.

— John Pinette

Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

— Neale Donald Walsch

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

— Jane McDonald

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

— Lyriq Bent

When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.

— Isaiah Mustafa

I realized I could do singing impressions when I was 12 years old, first being Britney Spears.

— Melissa Villasenor

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious - So kiss…

— Anonymous

When I was 3, my mom sent in a video of me singing George Strait to 'America's Funniest Home Videos.'

— Austin Mahone

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.

— Judith Hill

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

— Harry Dean Stanton

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

— Christina Milian

“Turn your loneliness into singing and praying, and you shall realize that you are never alone at all”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

— Charles Spurgeon