Singing Quotes

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Mind, Different, Place

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Sometimes, Able, Express

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

Music, Battle, Half

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
Rod Stewart

Nothing, Started, Coming

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.
Rod Stewart

Getting, Front, Hated

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Jessica Lange

Dreams, Character, Sweet

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
Adam Lambert

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
Adam Lambert

Started, Sing, Proper

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
John Mayer

Hope, End, Down

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Jennifer Lopez

Happy, Parents, Wanted

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.
Eric Clapton

Enjoy, Thought, Remember

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
Amanda Seyfried

Art, School, Everything

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
Amanda Seyfried

Life, Love, After

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.
Amanda Seyfried

In opera, there is always too much singing.
Claude Debussy

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.
Joni Mitchell

Life, Rock, Mean

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
Joni Mitchell

Off, She, Knocked

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
Lillie Langtry

Bad, After, Hear

I don't want to be singing my diary.
Norah Jones

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
Norah Jones

Body, Natural, Practice

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

Made, Wanted, Actress

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
Lauryn Hill

Trying, Again, Hear

I always seem to be singing against the grain.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Against, Seem, Grain

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Mariah Carey

Time, Everybody, Hear

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Amy Winehouse

Someone, Else, Heard

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson

Time, Important, Long

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
Sebastian Bach

Real, Everything, Boring

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
Sebastian Bach

Try, Songs, Sing

I started when I was about 11, singing.
Chris Brown

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
Reba McEntire

Play, Said, Song

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