Singing Quotes · Page 49

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

— Tituss Burgess

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

— Chuck Berry

I've always been singing. Ever since I can remember, I've been singing.

— Ella Mai

At the age of 11 is when I took my love & interest for singing a bit more serious.

— Dinah Jane

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

— Charley Pride

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

— Joe Cocker

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

— William Blake

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I…

— Robert Wyatt

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental…

— Vidyasagar

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and…

— Timothy Morton

I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience…

— Maren Morris

Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so…

— Christina Aguilera

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they…

— H. G. Wells

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

When I was singing in Helen, the style was to have a really unusual voice. The order of the day was to…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of…

— Alan Tudyk

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft…

— Paul Robeson

I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my…

— Gideon Glick

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,…

— Patty Griffin

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very…

— Lauryn Hill

Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in…

— Ian MacKaye

You can approach the guitar like a voice. That's the best way of looking at it. If you are singing, you can't…

— John Petrucci

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax…

— Eric Burdon

I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And…

— Abigail Washburn

“Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My specialty is singing long phrases with big legato and nice expression.

— Mirella Freni

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

— Taron Egerton

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

— Bessie Smith

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

— Melora Hardin

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

— Brian Eno

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

— Dick Gregory

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

— William Dunbar

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

— Frank Sinatra

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

— Brett Morgen

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

— Dan Bejar

My son told me to stop singing 'Happy Birthday' when he was 4.

— Ruth Westheimer

Nina Simone, to me, singing about black culture - she's unparalleled.

— Salim Akil

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

— Armaan Malik

I decided to pursue singing full-time right after I graduated from university.

— Jonita Gandhi