Quotes About Singing

I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

When I do get married, I'm gonna sing to my wife. If a woman makes me fall in love, I've got to sing to her.

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Well, I can't sing like James Brown and stuff and go do a gig. I'm not a roughhouse singer.

I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.

Trying to look glamorous while singing is not easy.

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before 'Glee.'

I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.'

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.

have often been totally astonished, due to the fact I got here to the north, to find folks who may want to talk of the making a song, among slaves, as proof of their contentment and happiness. It is not possible to conceive of a extra mistake. Slaves sing most while they're most unhappy. The songs of the slave constitute the sorrows of his coronary heart;

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.