Singing Quotes

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

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.

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

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.