Singing Quotes

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

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.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

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 my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

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

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.