Singing Quotes

I just started singing ’cause I had dropped out of school.

I don’t want to be singing my diary.

Singing and being truthful to a song… I’ve developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that’s all I’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we’d be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

Singing in a restaurant is very demeaning and humiliating but you learn from it, because people aren’t there for a show, they’re there to eat.

I started singing before I started talking. And that’s the God‘s honest truth. I think it was something that I’ve always loved to do, even if I wasn’t good at it. I just loved ballads.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

When I’m singing a song, I’m in that song, and I’m thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven‘t got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn’t up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

But I won’t deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Being from Philadelphia, ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ was a big deal – I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.

Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.

I miss singing every day. I can’t sing anymore. My voice doesn’t work. I have Parkinson‘s disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.

As for finding comfort in the zone, I’m comfortable singing what I write. I like writing emotional and slow, melodious songs. I haven’t tried singing songs from other genres, but yes, I would like to give them a try.

I’ve been singing since I was born. It’s something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don’t need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I’m not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I’ll know, and if I don’t, I hope somebody tells me.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I’m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

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

It’s so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It’s the best feeling.

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

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.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it’s like rain – once it starts, it’s hard to stop.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air – you project, you emit force.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I’m singing directly from the heart.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

I was taking singing lessons, and they’d say, ‘Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.’

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven’t even dreamed up.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I am yet to have a child, and if I am blessed with a baby girl, and in future, if a guy tries to impress my daughter by singing my hits, I have no issues with it.

Rock n’ Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That’s what rock n’ roll should do – take you to a better place.

I really can’t imagine not singing again.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it’s a little bit sad, right?

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it’s time to stop singing.

You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don’t measure up and you are not really connected with your people… it will explode in your face, no question about it.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn’t glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

God, I’m just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn’t know what she was singing about.