Singing Quotes

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.

~ David Ebershoff

Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven. It was a miracle and he wept for the gift of bearing witness.

~ Ann Patchett

I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

~ Aaron Neville

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

~ K. D. Lang

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

~ George Michael

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

~ Arijit Singh

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.

~ Hugh Jackman

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

~ R. Kelly

I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.

~ Tituss Burgess

Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.

~ Richie Havens

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

~ Ian Watson

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I had heard some Elvis songs on the radio. During Christmastime, they'd play 'Blue Christmas,' and I knew I liked his songs, but I didn't know who it was singing them. I just knew I liked them... I started reading, watching, and just picking up everything I could about him.

~ Drake Milligan

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

~ Mary Lambert

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

~ Bonnie Tyler

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

~ Linda Ronstadt

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

~ Richard Rohr

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

~ Pierce Brosnan

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.

~ Julie Andrews

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

~ Janis Joplin

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

~ Kurt Elling

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

~ Diane Paulus

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

~ Dolly Parton

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

~ Eddie Izzard

There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten.

~ Sonu Nigam

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

~ Jessye Norman

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

~ Rod Stewart

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.

~ Meat Loaf

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

~ Mariah Carey

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

~ Merry Clayton

As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It's hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy mood, and it sets a happy tone for everyone - particularly in my case, because I'm tone deaf, and my audience finds my singing a source of great hilarity.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I think I will always be performing I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

~ Lea Salonga

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

~ Justin Bieber

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

~ Liam Payne

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

~ Jason Derulo

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

~ Blake Shelton

I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

~ Burning Spear

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

~ La'porsha Renae

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

~ Thia Megia

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

~ Tyra Banks