Singing Quotes - page 52

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. (Zooey Deschanel)
I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work. View quote
Jason Mraz
And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world. View quote
Jason Mraz
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. View quote
Nick Cave
I was called by my agent, who said "Would you like to record a track with Kate Bush?" To which there is only F-ing one possible answer. Unless its me singing. View quote
Stephen Fry
What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing? View quote
Carl Sandburg
There is no song to your singing. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. View quote
Tori Amos
I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again. View quote
Sade Adu
You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that. (Jason Aldean)
Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places. View quote
Steven Curtis Chapman
The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics. View quote
Psy
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure. View quote
M. Ward
I always seem to be singing against the grain. View quote
Morrissey
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. View quote
Joni Mitchell
When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. View quote
Willie Nelson
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. View quote
Bill Nighy
I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched. View quote
Chris Colfer
Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum! (Stephen Colbert)
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. View quote
Natasha Bedingfield
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on. View quote
Robert Gates
I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more. View quote
Lauryn Hill
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am. View quote
John Mayer