Sing Quotes

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I really do think everybody can sing.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.