Singing Quotes

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.