Sing Quotes

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I just sing. You have to use it.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!