Quotes About Singing

I never was a very good singer.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it when I left it.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

My heart is like a singing bird.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.