Singing Quotes - page 55

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine. (Taylor Swift)
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. View quote
Taylor Swift
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me. View quote
Taylor Swift
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song. View quote
Chris Cornell
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. View quote
Chris Cornell
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. View quote
Jackie DeShannon
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. View quote
Eddie Van Halen
It is said he made his earth-journey, and lost what he sought. It is said they felled him and cut up his limbs for firewood. And it is said his head still sang and was swept out to sea singing. View quote
Denise Levertov
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man. View quote
Paul Robeson
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo. (Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira)
Mine was a threeplank bed whereon I lay and cursed the weary sun. They took away the prison clothes and on the frosty nights I froze. I had a Bible where I read that Jesus came to raise the dead- I kept myself from going mad by singing an old bawdy ballad and birds sang on my windowsill and tortured me till I was ill. View quote
Basil Bunting
Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon. View quote
Brie Larson
I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing. View quote
Neil Diamond
There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.' View quote
Corey Taylor
On Miss World (BBC 1) Patrick Lichfield and Sacha Distel helped herd the beef. Even further down-market, The Royal Variety Performance (BBC 1) was hosted by Max Bygraves, who tried the time-honoured gimmick of singing the finale at the start. 'And if you doan like our finish / You doan have to stay for the show.' Thanks. Click. View quote
Clive James
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman. View quote
Joss Whedon
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard. View quote
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other. View quote
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. View quote
Elvis Presley
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. (Avril Lavigne)
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs. View quote
Avril Lavigne
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed. View quote
James Taylor
If you feel like singing along, don't. View quote
James Taylor