Sing Quotes

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

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.

You gotta be country music - you can't just sing it.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

I sing a lot about love.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

If I can talk, I can sing.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!

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.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

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.

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.