Quotes About Singing

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

To sing is to pray twice.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.