Singing Quotes - page 49

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love. (Henry David Thoreau)
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant. View quote
Janet Jackson
I really can't imagine not singing again. View quote
Shania Twain
One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend. View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife; Without you I'd have had a lonely life. You cheated lots of times but then, I forgave you in the end Though your lover was my friend. Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky. View quote
Rod McKuen
So... like laughing children we'll go singing love wherever we go. View quote
Rod McKuen
They were singing, obviously they were having a good time. View quote
Zach Braff
There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down. View quote
Billie Piper
I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of? View quote
Janis Joplin
All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is. View quote
Ariana Grande
Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word! (Cat Stevens)
I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. View quote
Cyndi Lauper
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat. View quote
Amy Winehouse
I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. View quote
Julie Andrews
Singing has never been particularly easy for me. View quote
Julie Andrews
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow. View quote
Julie Andrews
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. View quote
Nicki Minaj
I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing. View quote
Colin Firth
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show. View quote
Simon Cowell
Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop. View quote
Simon Cowell
We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is -- juggling, magic, singing -- this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that. (Simon Cowell)
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Teenage girls with no life experiences and boys who call themselves punk are on my radio singing about how much pain they've endured and how hard their lives are. View quote
Damien Echols
Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky. View quote
Jacques Brel
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe