I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~By Patti Page ~
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
~By Little Richard ~
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
~By Chris Rock ~
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.
~By John Fogerty ~
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
~By Rosemary Clooney ~
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.
~By David Friedman ~
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
~By Linda Lavin ~
Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
~By Susan Boyle ~
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.
~By Elvis Presley ~
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!
~By David Gest ~
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
~By Janine Turner ~
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
~By Nusrat F. A. Khan ~
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
~By Maria Jeritza ~
I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.
~By Paul McDonald ~
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
~By Joe Cocker ~
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
~By Susan Boyle ~
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
~By Gerard Butler ~
I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.
~By Hilary Duff ~
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
~By Hilary Duff ~
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
~By Mariah Carey ~
If you feel like singing along, don't.
~By James Taylor ~
I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny.
~By Amy Jo Johnson ~
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
My father started me singing in church.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
~By Colin Firth ~
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
~By Willie Nelson ~
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
~By Gerard Butler ~
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
~By Muddy Waters ~
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
~By Ruth Brown ~
I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
~By Donna Douglas ~
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.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
~By Rick Danko ~
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
~By Ali Akbar Khan ~
I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.
~By Rudolf Bing ~
We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
~By Naima Adedapo ~
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
~By Elvis Presley ~
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
~By Casey Abrams ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
~By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~
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.
~By Caprice Bourret ~
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
~By Gary Cherone ~
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
~By Hoagy Carmichael ~
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
~By Alain Resnais ~
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
~By John McCrae ~
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.
~By Chris Burke ~
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.
~By Alison Moyet ~
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
~By Lou Gramm ~
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
~By Pete Seeger ~
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
~By Layne Staley ~
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
~By Namie Amuro ~
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
~By Charlie Hunter ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
~By Taylor Swift ~
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
~By Tom Glazer ~
Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
~By Kate Smith ~
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
~By Rita Coolidge ~
I don't like singing before noon.
~By Sting ~
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
~By Aaron Carter ~
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
~By Anton Seidl ~
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.
~By Keith David ~
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
~By Burl Ives ~
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
~By Chris Brown ~
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
~By Tom Wopat ~
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.
~By Anne Hathaway ~
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
~By Rosemary Clooney ~
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
~By Kim Gordon ~
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
~By Kate Smith ~
Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
~By Renee Fleming ~
When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
~By Billie Holiday ~
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
~By Gary Cherone ~
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
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