Singing Quotes · Page 58

The thing about singing for the Neighbourhood is I have to have a voice for five people and not just for myself.

— Jesse Rutherford

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

— Don Rickles

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

— Billie Jean King

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

— Edward Abbey

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

— Pete Seeger

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling…!!

— Anonymous

I love the challenge of singing something that's not that easy.

— Diana DeGarmo

I'm happy when I'm acting, or singing, or dancing, or tv hosting, or writing. I've done it all.

— Scheana Shay

I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

— Sam Smith

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line…

— Bob Seger

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just…

— Melissa Etheridge

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before…

— Burl Ives

So many people out there can probably sing very good - all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That's…

— Gregg Allman

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them.…

— Kate Pierson

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But…

— LZ Granderson

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the…

— Paul Robeson

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels…

— Kevin Spacey

“We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends,…

— Linda Ronstadt

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of…

— Patricia Hampl

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg…

— Tom Stoppard

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to…

— Jay DeMarcus

I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the…

— King Princess

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

— Michael Bolton

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

— Judith Durham

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

— Kelly Clarkson

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

— Celine Dion

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

— Steve Lukather

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

— Lesley Garrett

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

— Kandyse McClure

It's so incredible performing in front of 10,000-15,000 people singing along and giving off great energy.

— Arnel Pineda

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

— Carrie Brownstein

Ron doesn't write with me in mind, yet he knows that my singing will always work with whatever he chooses to write.

— Russell Mael

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

— Bill Ward

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

— Sammy Hagar

In 'Sugar' I'll be singing in every episode and I'll be acting and doing comedy. It's ideal for me if it works.

— Barbi Benton

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

— Steve Miller

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

— Meghann Fahy