Singing Quotes

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

I started singing because I come from Wales.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.