Sing Quotes

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.