Singing Quotes

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

Sad, Hurt, Healing

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright

Birthday, Happy, Down

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
Jimi Hendrix

Love, Time, Words

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix

Today, Nothing, Blues

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
Bob Dylan

Same, Song, Terrible

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne

Age, Hell, Around

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno

Great, Yourself, Self

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

Beautiful, Real, Why

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

Beautiful, Made, Oh

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Live, Die, Knew

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift

Single, Big, Dream

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard

Mother, Baby, Worst

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, May, Find

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry Miller

History, Truth, Death

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Christopher Walken

Love, Nice, Character

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry

Remember, Grateful, Wanted

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Colin Firth

Problem, Between, Voice

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley

Ask, Anybody, Style

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
Meat Loaf

Music, Rock, Hell

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
Kesha

Two, Dance, Singer

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor Swift

Music, Time, Parents

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan

Modern, Wolf, Red

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
Justin Bieber

Time, Place, Around

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Perfect, After, Cannot

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
Rita Rudner

Thought, Try, Acting

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis Presley

Before, Fact, Getting

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