Singing Quotes - page 38

I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice! (Jennifer Nettles)
When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck. View quote
Jesse Harris
If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun! View quote
Jesse Harris
I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing. View quote
Jessie J
I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it? View quote
Jessie J
But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.' View quote
Jessie J
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing. View quote
Jewel
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists. View quote
Jill Scott
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference. View quote
Jill Scott
'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. View quote
Jill Scott
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. (Jill Scott)
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this. View quote
Jill Scott
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. View quote
Jim Dale
I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing. View quote
Jimmy Rushing
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. View quote
Jo Stafford
I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating. View quote
Joanna Noelle Levesque
I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. View quote
Joanna Noelle Levesque
I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes. View quote
Jody Watley
I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it. View quote
Joe Nichols
I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings. View quote
Joel Madden
Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. (Jackie Evancho)
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. View quote
Jackie Evancho
I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.' View quote
Jacob Artist
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice. View quote
Johnny Mathis
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set. View quote
Jon Secada