Sing Quotes

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.

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

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!

The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red" so that must tell you how great it must have been.

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

I want to sing because I want to sing.