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Quotes About Singing

They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out.
~ Unknown
But singing isn't just about belting it out, is it? It's not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?
~ Zadie Smith
Love, I find, is like singing.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
He had given Israel back the notes to songs. The words would be according to their own dreams, but they would sing. They had songs and singers. They might not be absolutely free inside, but anyway he had taken from them the sorrow of serving without will, and had given them the strife of freedom. He had called to their memories the forgotten words of love and family. They had the blessing of being responsible for their own.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
~ Janet Jackson
I've always been interested in acting because I acted before I did singing.
~ Jay Sean
I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.
~ Jessie Buckley
I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.
~ Brenda Lee
I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.
~ Mark Kozelek
If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
~ Danny Aiello
I've been trying to find a balance between all things in my life - personal, singing, acting.
~ LeToya Luckett
Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
~ Olivia d'Abo
It's annoying when people go, 'I didn't know you could actually sing.'
~ Tiffany Darwish
I feel that too much singing annoys people.
~ Allison Williams
I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
~ Dennis Edwards
That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
~ Dave Keuning
I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.
~ Corin Nemec
I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse.
~ Gavin Creel
The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
~ Hugh Jackman
I once sang 'Summer Nights ' from 'Grease ' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
~ Hugh Jackman
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
~ Hugh Jackman
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Was this really happening? She was singing a Springsteen song with Ridge Jackson. Their gazes locked as they "sang" into the forks. A smile curved her lips, and giggles bubbled up until she couldn't sing at all.
~ Colleen Coble
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
~ Connie Britton