Quotes About Singing

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

I would say that the pivotal moment in singing for me was my sophomore year in high school, 'cause I always loved music but, even going into high school, I didn't know I wanted to make this my career.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.

I did classical singing at school. I did exams in that. I'd sing soprano, and we'd sing in German; we'd do Schubert for my pieces, in Latin, French... I really enjoyed that. I kind of miss it.

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.