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Quotes About Singing

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
~ Alessia Cara
You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
~ Gary Clark, Jr.
I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.
~ Anna Netrebko
When I got to sit in Big Bird's nest with Big Bird and sing the song, 'Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,' that was my crowning achievement.
~ Noah Wyle
I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.
~ Jimmy Scott
I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.
~ Vanessa Morgan
I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.
~ Raashi Khanna
I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
~ Kevin Kline
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.
~ Mary Mouser
It's special gum," she said. "Every time you chew, a woman in Estonia is having a singing orgasm.
~ Nicholson Baker
Maybe this is how I'll go, in a fit of laughter, what could be better, laughing and crying, laughing and singing, laughing so as to forget that I am alone, that it is the end of my life, that death is waiting outside the door for me.
~ Nicole Krauss
Maybe this is how I'll go, in a fit of laughter, what could be better, laughing and crying, laughing and singing, laughing so as to forget that I am alone, that it is the end of my life, that death is waiting outside the door for me.
~ Nicole Krauss
Sing, something we all know the words to. Make a goddamn joyful noise.
~ Nora Roberts
Royal joined the singing to change the subject and to remind her that there were things a body could feel good about. A community that had come together, from seeding to harvest to the bee. But the song was a work song Cora knew from the cotton rows, drawing her back to the Randall cruelties and making her heart thud. Connelly used to start the song as a signal to go back to picking after a whipping. how could such a bitter thing become a means of pleasure?
~ Colson Whitehead
She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
~ Virginia Woolf
in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
~ Virginia Woolf
Uno de ellos cantaba bajo la ventana del dormitorio; otro posado en la rama mas alta de las lilas; un tercero sobre el reborde del muro. Todos cantaban con una voz estridente, apasionada, vehemente, que parecía que iba a hacerles estallar el corazón, sin cuidarse de la áspera disonancia producida con el canto del pájaro vecino.
~ Virginia Woolf
When people began singing again, instead of trying to see the woman, Chiaretta looked at the air in front of the voice, trying to understand how something invisible could be so beautiful.
~ Laurel Corona
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
~ Lauren Bacall
She ran off singing One Direction like a screaming baby, 'n' I was like: 'OMG, REALLY?
~ Lauren Johnson
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
~ Lauren Myracle
Mama Sweetie said you didn't need a reason to sing. She said if everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
~ Lauren Myracle
Sound is the secret. The great Qabbalists taught that a prayer sung is one thousand times more efficacious than a prayer simply recited. This is because a human being instantaneously goes into a state of trance when he or she begins singing, or someone starts to sing at them.
~ Laurence Galian