Singing Quotes · Page 56

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

— Orson Welles

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

— Roberta Flack

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

— James Maslow

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

— Joni Mitchell

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

— Arthur Rubinstein

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought…

— Hamilton Leithauser

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up…

— John Wesley

“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they…

— Jennifer Paynter

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely…

— Alan Paton

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I…

— Irina Shayk

My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I…

— Reeve Carney

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I…

— Georgia Holt

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and…

— Joan Jett

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is…

— John Travolta

And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to…

— Ariana Grande

The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.'…

— Steve Ross

I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we…

— Gene Wolfe

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet:…

— W. H. Auden

I got serious about performing, and I got serious about acting. It's very funny; singing has always been a very separate thing…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.

— Ann Reinking

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

— Ruben Blades

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without…

— Tom Jones

I remember always singing melodies in my head or singing new melodies over songs I was listening to.

— G Flip

You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I feel like singing in a lot of ways is also acting. You cannot separate it.

— Shira Haas

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

— Tony Bennett

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

— Samantha Barks

Singing in the bathroom is interior stupidity. Outside the bathroom is exterior absurdity.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“You'll never harmonize if everyone is singing the same note.”

— L.B. Wilson

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'

— Diana DeGarmo

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

— Bob Seger

“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”

— Amit Ray

Van Heusen understood Sinatra's style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen's concept of melody.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

— Taylor Swift