Singing Quotes - Page 24

• Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

  Maria Callas

  Feels

  30 Copy quote

• [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

  Maria Callas

  Vienna, Negotiation, Fees

  14 Copy quote

• I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Sorry, Hero

  25 Copy quote

• My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

  Gloria Estefan

  Music, Guitar, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  Kiki Dee

  Kids, Age, Three

  4 Copy quote

• I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

  Rosanne Cash

  Music, Dream, Song

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

  Ma Rainey

  Music, Advice, Soul

  15 Copy quote

• Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

  Josh Turner

  Able, Way

  7 Copy quote

• It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Song, Fun, Hitting

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

  Opal Whiteley

  Doe, Helping

  10 Copy quote

• Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

  Jayne Cortez

  Creativity, Voice, Use

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

  Susan Straight

  Freedom, Heart, Branches

  Susan Straight (2008). “A Million Nightingales”, p.285, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

  Susan Cooper

  Dark, Years, White

  Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

  Teddy Thompson

  Cousin, Piano, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

  Teddy Thompson

  Creativity, Thinking, Space

  5 Copy quote

• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

  5 Copy quote

• Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Mean, Creating, Musician

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

  Dorianne Laux

  Song, Writing, Wounded

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Native American, Issues

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

  George Jones

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: www.cbn.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Song, Sex

  "Exit Interview: Joan Jett". Interview with Richard Rys, www.phillymag.com. June 20, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Passion, Thinking, Guitar

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, Blessing, Grace

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Baby, Grandmother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source