Top 90 Sings Quotes

My mother had a gorgeous singing voice, and she’d play these amazing vinyls. My favorite was ‘But Not for Me,’ on the 1954 album ‘Chet Baker Sings.’

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.

There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.

When Drake sings, it makes everybody feel like they can sing. Not saying he’s a bad singer – he’s a good singer – but it just makes everybody feel like, ‘If Drake can sing, I can sing, too.’

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school – and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.

I decided at 15 that I didn’t want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don’t mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I’ve had, things I’ve been through, and even the stuff I’m embarrassed about.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I’ve never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it’s different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from ‘Easy Rider,’ and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she’s dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she’s beautiful. It’s very powerful.

It was a time after ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ and ‘Mahogany’ and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He’s singing and he’s writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

I’m still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

I know that James Brown recording where he sings about Chicago. I think he sings, like, ‘Chicago, my hometown!’ That’s what I think of when I think of Chicago. And I think of Chicago Bulls.

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can’t help it! The ‘goal’ nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.

Some of my favorite films are musicals, like ‘Walk the Line,’ ‘The Rose’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues.’ I just love the way the music and the story fuel each other.

Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.

One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing – well, one of them sings but she’s got some ways to go. I love her acting. I’m actually trying to put her in some classes and everything so she can learn the art of acting. I don’t want her to get no parts because her dad is Ginuwine. I want her to earn it.

Even the humble black grandmother, who sings in the church choir and struggles to raise a grandchild abandoned to her care, must assert ideological liberalism in order to make others comfortable about her blackness.

I am a person who sings. I know not everyone is, but that won’t keep the Spirit from putting a song in your heart.

I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there’s a lot of duetting going on at my house.

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997.

I’m the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don’t know where I got it from.

Adam Scott sings like a bird… He’s so bad. He’s so bad.

I don’t think I’m that good a singer. I can’t think of a song that I’ve written that I don’t like the way somebody else sings it better.

Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I’m a ballerina by trade; I’m a ballerina who sings by the way.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God’s eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called ‘Casa de la Cultura,’ which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.

I sing, but I’m not a singer. I’m just a producer who sings on her own songs because I can’t find anybody else who sounds like me.

Some shows feel very reverent – when you’re in a seated theater, no one really sings. I love it when people sing! I wish people would sing all the time. Because one of my favorite things when I get to do as a musician is step away from the microphone and listen to everyone sing together.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like it’s a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ it’s the other one, ‘Still I Rise.’

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.

I’d love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

I don’t love my speaking voice, frequently – but I think that we need music, and when a person sings, those kind of vibrations go through your body, it’s amplified in the room. It goes through everyone else’s body, too.

While my father has a music group of his own, my mother sings devotional songs. So, right from childhood I would sit with them during practice and I trained under Vidod Dwivediji.

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he’s a great interpreter of my music.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody’s like, ‘Shut up.’

I always wanted to be known as an actor who sings and not a singer who acts.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

I’m not just a chick singer who sings high all the time.

I mean, look at Adele. She sings and she’s not posh, posh, posh. But she’s absolutely amazing. She’s smashing it. She’s global. I just think why change yourself? I’m going to stay as me.

I didn’t want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

The violin sings.

So I’m truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

There’s a difference between world-class fighters and club fighters. It’s similar to the distinction between a Grammy Award nominee and a guy who sings in Holiday Inn cocktail lounges.

I felt that if I’m serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It’s less of a stretch if I’m singing, unless I’m playing a character who sings.

I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don’t really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

If I had to look at ‘Now He Sings’… from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I’ve always been so happy – honored, really – to be a small part of.

My dad sings, and my mom is the funniest person you’ll ever meet. You put them together, and out comes the Feldstein children.