Singing Quotes

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

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

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

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

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

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself".

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

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.

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

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

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

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

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 hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

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

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

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.

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

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

My singing is a mix between Jericho/ Fergie/ Jesus

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

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.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.