Singing Quotes

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.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

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

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I miss my singing career very much.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.