Singing Quotes - Page 25

• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

  Heinrich Heine

  Swans, Water, Dip

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

  John Milton

  Night, Sky, Dawn

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.139, Pearson Education

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• Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.

  Gideon Glick

  Teacher, Growing Up, Champion

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Teeth, Annie, Stage

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• I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

  Willie Nelson

  Exercise, Thinking, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Memories, People, Southern

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.

  Tim Schafer

  Flirting, Rocks, Together

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• I don't want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. I'm into love, and maybe I'll get more into making love when I'm older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody.

  Justin Bieber

  Sex, Drug, Making Love

  "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Drugs and Turning 18" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Sound, Six, Range

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, And Love, Innocent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

  Anna Camp

  Art, Jobs, New York

  "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Church, Telling The Truth

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

  James Darren

  Mean, Careers, Singers

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• The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

  Sean Durkin

  Religious, Prayer, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

  Jeff Daniels

  Actors, Music Industry, Wells

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

  Hilary Duff

  Rocks, Want, Kind

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• 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.

  Loleatta Holloway

  Children, Years, Voice

  "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

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• There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

  Micky Dolenz

  Mother, Father, Goes On

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• From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

  Brett Eldredge

  Dream, Albums, Want

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