Quotes About Singing

she was crooning to herself: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones ! Oh, my back and oh, my bones!

little distant sounds of shut-away singing

By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

Why water more wine in the great bowl? Why do you drown your gullet in grape? I cannot let you spill out your life on song and drink. Let us go to sea, and not let the wintry calm of morning slip by as a drunken sleep. Had we boarded at dawn, seized rudder and spun the flapping crossjack into the wind, we would be happy now, happy as swimming in grape. But you draped a lazy arm on my shoulder, saying: 'Sir, a pillow, your singing does not lead me to ships'.

I sang because that is what I do when I am happy and when I'm sad. I sang because it is who I am when I am being the best possible version of me.

When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn't used to singing so much. Now I've learned, when I'm singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn't know how to preserve it for the next show.

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide the vocals. They're there to thicken the web of the cello.

I actually have sang at a wedding before! My old hairdresser from New Jersey, I sang at her wedding.

I think the first big thing I did: I sang at my mom's wedding when I was almost 8, so 7... that was my first thing.

I have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical repertoire, and I get together with a music teacher every few months.

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

My dad was a singer. Old classic stuff like 'Brown Eyed Girl,' or 'Delilah' if he was getting really dramatic. And there was always a gig. All the men would go out and play, congregate back at our house, and I would be up with them wailing into the wee hours.

I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.

I love singing gospel. It's fulfilling but in a different way than singing pop music.