Singing Quotes · Page 51

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

— Layne Staley

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water…

— Heinrich Heine

A lot of people are put off by the idea of scat singing. Either that or it's something to be made fun…

— Kurt Elling

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

— Frankie Avalon

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world… I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

— Jean Gabin

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

— Dave Mustaine

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on…

— Tommy Shaw

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous…

— Julie Andrews

My love for music was first seen by my father when as a child, I used to hum a lot of songs…

— Tulsi Kumar

I started training with singing and dance lessons at the same time. Also, I was taking Japanese lessons too, when I was…

— BoA

Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's…

— Dolora Zajick

Music is a really big thing for me and something that kind of helps me de-stress. Whether it's background music or I'm…

— Jenna Ortega

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing…

— Jon Secada

When I'm going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back…

— Mary J. Blige

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy…

— William Allingham

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.…

— David Eugene Edwards

I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to…

— Shahrukh Khan

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,…

— John Mellencamp

When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation -…

— Thao Nguyen

I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I…

— Dhani Harrison

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

— Susan Stroman

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

— Cassandra Wilson

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.”

— Laini Taylor

When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

— Ashley McBryde

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

— Chris Colfer

I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.

— Christina Grimmie

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

— Pete Doherty

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

— Billie Holiday

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

— Marianne Faithfull

“I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit…

— Chi Chi DeVayne

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

— Dove Cameron

I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.

— Alessia Cara

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

— Edna St. Vincent Millay