Quotes About Singing

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

My means of entry to 'Christianity was singing in a choir. As a boy chorister, I grew up with Ancient and Modern, the evening canticles, versicles and responses, and carols.

I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to sing. As soon as I expressed an interest my mom was super supportive of me.

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'

If there is place for music that I do in Bollywood, then I would surely like to sing a song in a Hindi film.

I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.

I always surprise myself with my voice. A lot of people don't get it, and they're like, 'You can't sing. Stop. What are you doing?' And it's funny to hear a lot people say I sing in falsetto because it's not falsetto - that's my voice.

I was clearly the singing and dancing actor. When I was picked for serious roles, it came to me as a surprise.

I'm very surprised at my success as a singing star because I can't sing a lick.

It's just very surreal for someone who doesn't sing in public to suddenly be singing with Jennifer Hudson.

To be sitting on a movie set in Brussels and watching Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard singing something you wrote - it's surreal, way beyond what we expected.

The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.

What Sidda did not know was how much more singing there was when Vivi was growing up. That's the kind of thing the history books don't tell you. How people sang outdoors all the time.

Debe ser la caricia de lo inútil, la tristeza sin fin de ser poeta, de cantar y cantar, sin que se rompa la tragedia sin par de la existencia. It must be the caress of the useless, the endless sadness of being a poet, of singing and singing, without breaking the peerless tragedy of existence. (From Canción Amarga/Bitter Song)

No, Lord Waterburn threatened to shoot us for singing." Waterburn had no patience for such whimsy. "I did no such thing," he said flatly. "I might have done, however," the marquess teased. "Depending upon the song.

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