Quotes on Singing

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

Author: Danny Aiello

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Author: Herb Alpert

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Author: Julie Andrews

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

Author: Sebastian Bach

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Author: Roger Bannister

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Author: Rudolf Bing

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

Author: Susan Boyle

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Author: Dennis Brown

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Author: Ruth Brown

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Author: Mary Carpenter

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Author: Patsy Cline

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

Author: Joe Cocker

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Author: Rick Danko

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Author: Keith David

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

Author: Colin Davis

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

Author: Celine Dion

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Author: Placido Domingo

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Author: Placido Domingo

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

Author: Hilary Duff

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Author: Ella Fitzgerald

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

Author: David Friedman

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Author: Jean Gabin

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

Author: James Galway

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Author: Kim Gordon

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Author: Lou Gramm

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Author: Josh Groban

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

Author: Gregory Harrison

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

Author: Melissa Hart

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Author: Jane Horrocks

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Author: Jane Horrocks

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

Author: Alan Jackson

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

Author: Wanda Jackson

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

Author: Mick Jagger

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

Author: Nusrat Khan

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Author: Alfredo Kraus

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Author: Alfredo Kraus

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Author: Walter Landor

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

Author: Lindsay Lohan

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Author: Stephen Malkmus

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

Author: Kathy Mattea

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

Author: Thia Megia

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Author: Spike Milligan

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

Author: Radha Mitchell

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

Author: Nana Mouskouri

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

Author: Holly Near

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Author: Willie Nelson

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Author: Elaine Paige

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Author: Jean Rameau

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Author: Alain Resnais

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Author: Little Richard

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Author: Chris Robinson

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Author: Nancy Sinatra

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Author: Kate Smith

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

Author: Kate Smith

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Author: Layne Staley

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

Author: Harry Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Author: Harry Stanton

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Author: Harry Stanton

I don't like singing before noon.

Author: Sting

If you feel like singing along, don't.

Author: James Taylor

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Author: Mick Taylor

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Author: Muddy Waters

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Author: Cassandra Wilson

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Author: Tom Wopat

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Author: Robert Wyatt

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Author: Robert Wyatt