Singing Quotes

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

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.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I will always be singing.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

I started when I was about 11, singing.