The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
Joanna Newsom

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Patsy Cline

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Fahey

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
Lucinda Williams

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor

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

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Kate Smith

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
Vince Gill

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
Wyclef Jean

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
Taryn Manning

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

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Kathy Mattea

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
Placido Domingo

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

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
Placido Domingo

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

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.
Ronnie Spector

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.
Susan Boyle