Top 555 Sing Quotes

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’ll sing outside your window. I’m as old fashioned as they come.

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

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.

Yes, you’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart.

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

You either evolve or you don’t. I don’t like old people on a rock n’ roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can’t just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, ‘Sing ‘White Rabbit,’ and I’d say no? That’s rude.

I don’t sing in the shower.

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different fields; I can just be who I am at all times.

I don’t believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can’t.

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

When you’re with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?

Man, it’s hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can’t.

It’s not so uncommon for me to get so wrapped up in a song that I cry several times when I sing them. That’s the difference between my music and some of the other folks.

I have big dreams, but if God would’ve told me that I had to sing in a local bar in Barcelona, and that that would be my life, that would be my life, I would’ve done it with the same passion.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I’m trying to sing with.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, ‘No. You shouldn’t be doing that.’ And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I sing a lot about love.

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that’s so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

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.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Since my father’s death, a lot of people have made it clear that they’re not ready to give up the music. For me, it’s a big, fat gift. I get to sing with a big orchestra and get to sing orchestrations that will never be old.

I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don’t think I’ve worked as hard as many other people.

I don’t believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that’s dishonest. For example, I’m not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don’t, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don’t quite sing as good as you used to, you’re writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it’s just the journey.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that’s a good thing.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

Luckily, my dad doesn’t sing.

The Four Aces asked me if I’d like to sing with them as they didn’t really have a lead singer.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It’s pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that’s exactly how I approached it – only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

You don’t always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.

I’ve discovered people in my lifetime who are like, ‘I always wanted to sing but… ‘ It’s like, ‘Well then, did you try?’ My thing was always not caring about failure.

I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that’s excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell – which is their No. 1 priority.

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes – someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world – things that before we were sheltered from.

Getting older, you just don’t want to sing fluffy.

I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.

I love to sing. It’s the easiest thing for me to do.

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn’t sing even in family gatherings.

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place – folk music, rock n’ roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn’t something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I’m always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, ‘Tis that I can’t remember how They go.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

I’ve found that in now having experienced what it’s like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what’s affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.