Singing Quotes

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

I'm rarely singing in English.

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

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.