Quotes About Singing

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.

I sang at least one hit for almost every star - Dharmendra, Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna included, and several hits for all the Khans, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor and many more.

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

I've had statements made - 'Who in the heck wants to hear a 60-year-old singer?' That statement was made - it's disheartening, you know, because you say, 'Well, hey, why should a guy feel like that about it?'

When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.