Quotes About Singing

Kishore Kumar is the voice of India, M.D. Rafi taught me to sing romantic numbers, while Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's live recordings helped me prep for stage shows.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't seem like a good harmony reference but it was for us. We wanted to take harmonies from Mayday Parade and be a guitar playing band.

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

For some reason, my voice doesn't age. I can still hit those high harmonies just like I did back in the day.

I love to harmonize.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school to sing. I just played to have fun. But these guys teach me, and they show me stuff and give me courage to try new stuff.

I play the drums, I love to sing. I'll make a beat anywhere - on the wall, on the floor - and I can have fun doing just about anything.

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.

If you're starting a group, don't think about being a star or you're in for heartbreak. It you enjoy singing, that's enough.

When you are in the 20-30 age group, you experience things; your voice fully develops, and you experience heartbreak. That's what happened with me, so whenever I sing, I use my experiences.

I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that's a special sound.

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.