Quotes About Singing

Werner thinks of home all the time. He misses the sound of rain on the zinc roof above his dormer; the feral energy of the orphans; the scratchy singing of Frau Elena as she rocks a baby in the parlor. The smell of the coking plant coming in under the dawn

There's all the difference in the world between teaching a human being and sanding the gears in a machine. The machine does a job. The human being embarks on a quest. The machine hums a dreary, constant drone. The human being sings. One

I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.

I always used to sing in the house and I went to school at Hywel Dda Primary School in Ely. I think they had a puppet-type show there and word got around I could sing. I sang at that puppet performance and used to sing in school. From there, it was in my blood. I didn't want to do anything else but sing.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

It's alright to make an actor sing if the director already has an ideal sequence in his film. But I am totally against bringing in actors to sing in every film without any context and just for marketing purposes.

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.

My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can happen.

Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.

I can't flip a burger, I can't do anything. All I know how to do is sing. I've been blessed to be able to make a living doing what I love.

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.