Singing Quotes

Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.

My heart is like a singing bird.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

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 get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

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.