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Quotes About Singing

Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her hands for she could feel no anguish and the bright bird that had filled her breast was still singing... was still singing.
~ Mervyn Peake
A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.
~ Bernard Cornwell
And where are we going?' he asked. to war,' I said grandly. 'We'll give the poets something to sing about. We'll wear their tongues out with singing! We're going to war, my friend,' I slapped Finan's shoulder, 'but right now I'm going to sleep. Keep the men busy, tell them they're going to be heroes!
~ Bernard Cornwell
When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
~ Kathleen Battle
Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.
~ M. Jayachandran
The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.
~ Craig Robinson
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
~ Ana Gasteyer
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
~ Haley Reinhart
I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
~ Joel Edgerton
I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.
~ Ashley McBryde
I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal.
~ Caroline Polachek
I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.
~ Judith Durham
I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!
~ Jennifer Hudson
When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!
~ Pixie Lott
I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.
~ Kate Micucci
I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.
~ Michelle Carter
On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.
~ St. Lucia
I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.
~ Stefflon Don
Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high school, but I didn't think I had the voice to be a singer professionally.
~ Jamila Woods
I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
~ Mary Steenburgen
All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.
~ Glen Campbell
I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.
~ Shannon Purser
I met Ne-Yo in London. I sang for him and he said, 'I want to sign you.' It was amazing - it meant my name was buzzing around the industry and I got to meet lots of different labels.
~ Conor Maynard
The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!
~ Lucy Hale