Singing Quotes

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

Singing is incredibly physical.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I love hard singing.

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.