Singing Quotes

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.