Quotes About Singing

I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' and I had to sing. It was terrible.

When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.

I actually never wanted to sing, and I thought that I was never going to sing, but I see that God had other plans.

My two younger brothers play football as well and they are obviously pretty talented and my two older brothers like to sing and I obviously can't do that.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

I've been watching Maybelline commercials since I was little and singing along with the jingle and doing little Maybelline commercials in my bathroom when I was, like, 10.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.