Top 630 Singing Quotes

For a while, I couldn’t decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I’m glad that I chose the latter because I wasn’t a very good singer.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time – I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can’t help but have a profound effect on your life.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn’t interested any longer. That’s very astonishing.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It’s freedom.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

Well, over the years, I’ve developed a stable of songs of which I’m known for and never get tired of singing.

Every time I step on stage an’ see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it’s a surreal moment for me.

I wake up every morning singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’

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.

When I auditioned for ‘Pitch Perfect,’ I didn’t know it was a singing movie. I didn’t read the script. I go to the audition, and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s a baseball movie.’ But then I’m reading the lines, and I’m like, ‘This doesn’t seem like a baseball movie.’

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’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

But I won’t deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

I bet Maurice Gibb’s heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin’ Alive.

I liked singing, but I didn’t like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

When I’m singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don’t see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to be interacting with them.

I was Danny Zuko in ‘Grease,’ and I was in the musical ‘Sweet Charity’ and then in the musical ‘On the Twentieth Century.’ They were great. I mean, singing isn’t really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

I’ll never forget when we played Shepherd’s Bush in London. We played ‘I Run To You’, and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have.

I always wanted to sing. I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t know how to make the singing thing happen.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke.

I’ve never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

A lot of songs I’m kind of singing and rapping.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It’s like a release, especially when I’m singing soul music.

Now I’m more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call ‘Don McLean’ when I was probably in high school.

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I’m always myself – jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it’s what some guy who’s sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that’s more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

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.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

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

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues – the blues background was my big inspiration.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

I don’t sing country music because I’m not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it’s the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

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.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren’t worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I miss all of the singing from the ’90s; I miss groups. There are no groups like Jagged Edge and SWV or Brownstone.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Now I’m fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

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.

See, that’s nothing but blues, that’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you’re only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you’re singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

My husband encouraged me to stand on my own, gave me the nudge to do what I wanted – either singing or directing films.

Portishead’s production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there’s this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like ‘It’s A Fire.’ That’s a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.