Quotes About Singing

I don't know a high C from a low C.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

I can sing as low as Toni Braxton and as high as Mariah Carey.

I don't know how familiar you are with the Venetian audience, but the most complimentary thing that can be said of them is that they are dogs. They don't go to the theatre to listen to music or hear beautiful singing; they go to wear their new clothes and be seen in them by their friends, and those friends are there for the same reasons.

There is an incessant craving after any teaching that is sensational, exciting, and stirs up emotion. There is an unhealthy appetite for a sort of intermittent and emotional Christianity. The religious life of many is little better than spiritual taste testing, and the agreeable spirit and peaceful that Peter commends is completely forgotten (1 Peter 3:4). Crowds, crying, feelings, entertaining singing, and an incessant stirring up of the emotions are the only things that many people care for.

I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.

My whole family knows I can't sing. My voice, my sister says, is just left of the key. Just right of the tune. But I sing anyway, whenever I can.

Si SOBREVIVES, si persistes, canta, sueña, emborráchate. Es el tiempo del frío: ama, apresúrate. El viento de las horas barre las calles, los caminos. Los árboles esperan: tú no esperes, éste es el tiempo de vivir, el único.

listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song

Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother's singing rose from the camp. I lifted my arms; I could not help it. The breeze itself was warm; the islands soft with moss; the loons calling melancholy in forgotten bays; and Life in all its operations seemed unspeakably generous.

All I saw was his beauty, his singing limbs, the quick flickering of his feet.

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.