Singing Quotes

I'm rarely singing in English.

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.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.