Singing Quotes

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

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.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.