Sing Quotes

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.