Quotes About Singing

All great singers copy someone else in the initial stages.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

MARIA. So. How is everyone? Can you hear me? I don't believe in microphones. Singing is first of all about projection. So is speech. People are forgetting how to listen. They want everything blasted at them. Listening takes concentration. If you can't hear me, it's your fault. You're not concentrating.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.

Rose-cheeked Laura, come;Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty'sSilent music, either otherSweetly gracing.

I just think it would be super cheesy for this Navy SEAL to start singing.

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.