100+ Singing Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

topic: Real, Singing, Heritage, Opera Singing

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.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Voice, Singing, Might, Please Yourself

I really love singing.

- Andrea Corr

topic: Singing

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

- Andrew Bird

source: Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

topic: Singing, Sound, Different

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

- Andy Milonakis

topic: Song, Kids, Singing

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

- Andy Partridge

topic: Singing, Doorways, Ships, Rudders

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

- Angie Brown

topic: Thinking, Missing, Singing, Well Rounded, Short Films

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

- Ann Patchett

topic: Feelings, Singing, Moved

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Technology, Singing, Notes, Recording Studio

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Music, Heart, Singing, Furry

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Singing, Splits

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Artist, Singing, Singers

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

- Anton Seidl

source: Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.105, Parrot Press

topic: Artist, Feelings, Singing, Crude

No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Years, Two, Singing, Time Goes By

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

- Aprilynne Pike

topic: Piano, Musical, Singing, Playing Piano

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: House, Singing, Sound

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

- Aretha Franklin

topic: White, Black, Singing, Blouses

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

- Ariana Grande

topic: Dancing, Singing, Acting, Singing And Acting

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

- Arlo Guthrie

topic: Song, Tired, Singing, Twenty Five

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

- Arnold Adoff

topic: Sight, Singing, Trying, Sight And Sound

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

- Arthur Freed

topic: Rain, Feelings, Singing, Happy Again, Happy Rain

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

topic: Song, Mind, Singing, Memories Of A Geisha, Geisha

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

- Audie Murphy

topic: Sight, Singing, Melody

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

- Aurora Aksnes

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Talking, Singing, Used

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Ties, Singing, Age, Sids

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

- B. B. King

topic: Play, Mind, Singing

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Thinking, Singing, Way

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

- Barry McGuire

topic: Jobs, Night, Singing, Opening Night

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

- Bellamy Young

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Forever, Missing, Singing

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

- Ben Hogan

topic: Challenges, Singing, Would Be, Crosby

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

- Bernadette Peters

topic: Singing, Body, Lessons, Body Building

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Rights, Singing, Movement

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

- Bernie Worrell

topic: Baby, Singing, Female, Vocalist

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

- Bert McCracken

source: "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.

topic: Rocks, Singing, Band, Rock Bands

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

- Bertolt Brecht

source: Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.320, Taylor & Francis

topic: Inspirational, Dark, Singing, Dark Times

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

- Bessie Smith

topic: Tombstone, Singing, World

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

- Bette Midler

topic: Singing, Orchestra, Helen

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

- Bill Nighy

topic: Guitar, Order, Singing

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Real, Singing, Sound

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Play, Singing, Jazz

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Thinking, Singing, Horns

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Song, Singing, Way

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

- Billie Holiday

source: Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.163, Broadway Books

topic: Music, Feelings, Singing

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

- Billie Jean King

topic: Dancing, Singing, Ask Me

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

- Billie Piper

topic: Couple, Thinking, Singing, Beyonce

I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

- Billy Connolly

topic: People, Singing, Arms, Battering

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

- Bjork

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Oxygen, Singing, Celebration

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

- Bjork

topic: Circles, Editing, Singing

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, Singing, Terrible

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, Singing, Wells

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, People, Singing, Campfire

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

- Bob Seger

topic: Car, Parent, Singing

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

- Bob Seger

topic: Singing, Playing Music, Lines

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

- Bobby Darin

topic: Practice, Singing, No Excuses

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Mind, Singing, Want

She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

- Bobby Petrino

topic: Song, Singing, Mountain

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

- Bobby Vinton

topic: Song, Voice, Singing

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

- Bobby Womack

topic: Heart, Play, Singing

I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

- Boy George

topic: Voice, People, Singing, Cabaret, Favorite Singer

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

- Brandi Carlile

source: "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

topic: Meditation, Singing, Form

I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

- Brandi Carlile

topic: Thinking, Heartfelt, Singing, Most Inspiring

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

- Brandon Marshall

topic: Singing, Baptists, Old Fashioned, Testifying

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

- Brenda Lee

topic: Years, Singing

Jesus is infinite. he does not finish. there is no start time for Jesus. he has always existed and will always exist. and his love for us is vaster than we are able to comprehend...And i have to remind myself that God is not 30 minutes of accessible group singing.

- Brenton Brown

topic: Jesus, Singing, Groups

God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.

- Brenton Brown

topic: Singing, Groups, Worship

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

- Brett Eldredge

topic: Dream, Singing, Albums

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

- Brett Somers

topic: People, Singing, Facts

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

- Brian Eno

topic: Believe, Singing, Together, Singing Together

I believe in singing.

- Brian Eno

topic: Believe, Singing, I Believe

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Singing, Littles, Firsts

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

- Brie Larson

topic: Character, Expression, Singing

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Voice, Singing

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Singing, Film, Justin

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

- Bryan Clay

topic: Singing, Tunes, Driving, Show Tunes

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

- Bryn Terfel

topic: Choices, Singing, Style

I started singing because I come from Wales

- Bryn Terfel

topic: Singing, Wales

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

- Burton Cummings

topic: Car, Singing, Trying, High Notes

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

- Caprice Bourret

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Giving Up, Singing, Acting

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

source: "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.

topic: Singing, Ears, Conscious

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

- Carlisle Floyd

topic: Voice, Singing, Trying

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

- Carly Simon

topic: Sister, Singing, Dresses, Greenwich, Greenwich Village

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

- Carolyn Forche

topic: Voice, Soul, Singing

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

- Carrie Brownstein

topic: Dark, Singing, Honest

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.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Country, People, Singing

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Feelings, Singing

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

- Cassandra Wilson

topic: Grandmother, Singing, Kind, My Grandmother

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

- Cassandra Wilson

topic: Music, School, Singing, Church Choir

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Government, Dancing, Singing, Singing And Dancing

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

- Cathy Rigby

topic: Athlete, Singing, Relax

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Sea, Feel Good, Singing

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Singing, Language, Feels, Presentation Skills

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

- Celia Cruz

topic: Singing

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

- Celia Cruz

topic: Singing, Steps, Life Is

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Strong, Musical, Singing

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

topic: Children, Weather, Singing, Backup, Small Child

Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ***** while singing.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Sex, Singing, Kicking, Sex And Love, Sex Love

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Sex, Singing, Males, Instrumental Music

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Music, Voice, Singing

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Mistake, Bird, Singing, Marrying, Cold Mountain

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

source: Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

topic: Learning, Men, Singing

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Hymns, Long, Singing, Disobeying, Praises To God

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

- Charles Kuralt

topic: Song, Winter, Singing

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Music, Singing, Phrases

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Teacher, Mean, Singing

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

- Charley Pride

topic: Jobs, Singing, Made

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

- Charlie Musselwhite

topic: Voice, Singing, Cry, Harmonicas, Singing The Blues

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

- Charlotte Church

topic: Singing, Acting, Different

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.

- Charlotte Church

topic: My Boyfriend, Singing, Doe

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your house.

- Cher

topic: Party, House, Singing

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about.

- Chica Umino

topic: Heart, Long, Singing

Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

- Choi Soo-young

topic: Morning, Singing, Cartoon, Snsd, Nursery Rhymes

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

- Chris Cornell

source: FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Oct 23, 2016

topic: Song, Play, Singing

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

- Chris Cornell

topic: Song, Kids, Singing, Favorite Bands

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

- Chris Isaak

topic: Fun, Singing, Pressure

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

- Chris Martin

topic: Feelings, Singing, Way

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

- Christina Aguilera

topic: First Love, Boys, Singing

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

- Christina Milian

topic: Practice, House, Singing

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.

- Christoph Waltz

topic: Singing, Acting, Opera

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

- Christopher Lee

topic: Singing, Band, Should

% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

- Cindy Sheehan

topic: War, Usa, Singing, Preaching To The Choir

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

- Clare Bowen

topic: Singing, Acting, Balls, Splitting

In opera, there is always too much singing.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Music, Piano, Singing, Opera Singing, Piano Music

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

- Clay Shirky

topic: Cat, Talking, Singing

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Hymns, Singing, Life Is Like, Reciting

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

- Cliff Barrows

topic: Christian, Community, Singing

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

- Cole Porter

source: Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

topic: Passion, Blue, Singing, Bluebird

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

- Colin Davis

source: "Sir Colin Davis obituary" by David Nice, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.

topic: Breathing, Piano, Singing, Piano Playing

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

- Colin Firth

topic: Apology, Voice, Singing, Plumbing

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

- Colin Hay

topic: Guitar, Singing, Sitting, Acoustic Guitar

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

- Colleen McCullough

topic: Law, Bird, Singing

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

- Compay Segundo

topic: Singing, Graves

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

- Compay Segundo

topic: Singing, Singers, Able, Trombone

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

- Connie Britton

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Teacher, Singing, Music Teacher

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

- Conor Maynard

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Singing, Littles

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Singing, Done, Trouble

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

- Conrad Aiken

source: Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

topic: Singing, Ghost, Fury

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

- Corinne Bailey Rae

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Singing, Different, Feels

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Clothes, People, Singing

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Dark, Soul, Singing

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

- Damian Marley

topic: Song, Writing, Singing

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

- Dave Gahan

source: "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

topic: Space, Feelings, Singing, Cinematic, Sound Of Music

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do,

- Dave Grohl

topic: Play, People, Singing

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Writing, Thinking, Singing, Therapeutic

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

- Davey Havok

topic: Boys, Singing, Stitches, Mics, Pushed Away

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.

- David Abram

source: David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.163, Vintage

topic: Singing, Events, Culture, Rootedness, Abram

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

- David Antin

topic: Meaningful, Children, Singing

When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite

- David Archuleta

topic: People, Singing, Fans

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

- David Gest

source: "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

topic: Sight, Singing, Looks

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

- David Johansen

source: "The Survivors: David Johansen". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

topic: Mean, Mind, Singing

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

- David Nail

topic: Journey, Singing, Towns

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

- David Steindl-Rast

source: Source: www.thedailybeast.com

topic: Song, Silence, Singing

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

- Debra Messing

topic: Mother, Dancing, Singing, Carols, Television Watching

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

- Debra Wilson

topic: Focus, Singing, Bigs

My father started me singing in church.

- DeForest Kelley

topic: Father, Sight, Singing, Singing In Church

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

- Dejan Stojanovic

topic: Sky, Rivers, Singing

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

- Delta Goodrem

topic: Long, Singing

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

- Denise Levertov

source: Denise Levertov (1987). “Breathing the Water”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

topic: Self, Singing, Heard

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

- Dennis Brown

topic: Running, Water, Singing

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

- Dennis Brown

topic: Song, Sight, Singing, Humming

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.

- Deva Premal

topic: Wisdom, Heart, Singing

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

- Diana Gabaldon

source: Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.885, Delacorte Press

topic: Singing, Library, Volume

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

- Diana Krall

topic: Character, Track, Singing, Film Noir

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.

- Diane Keaton

topic: Song, Profound, Singing, Garlands, Singing Songs

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

- Diane Paulus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Drama, Singing

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.