Singing Quotes - Page 29

• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  Bryan Clay

  Tunes, Driving, Shows

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• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dad, Kids, Voice

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• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Opera, Singers, Lasts

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• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, People

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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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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Practice, Body

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

  Roberta Flack

  Song, Pain, Rock And Roll

  Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly

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• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  Don McLean

  Jobs, School, Autumn

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• Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

  Holly Near

  Music, Song, Ideas

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• The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

  PSY

  Song, Writing, People

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• Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

  R. Kelly

  Guy, Trying, Being Cool

  "R. Kelly and Phoenix". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2013.

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

  Ma Rainey

  Music, Advice, Soul

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• I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

  Anna Camp

  Art, School, College

  "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

  Dinah Shore

  Thinking, People, Showers

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

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• gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

  Lynda Barry

  Music, Sound, Feels

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• Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Song, Littles, Likes

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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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• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  Kailash Kher

  Passion, Heart, First Love

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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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• I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

  Elvis Presley

  Art, Tired, Guy

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• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Brother, Kids

  "Adam Levine". Austin Scaggs, Rolling Stone, May 31, 2007.

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• My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Kids, Important

  "Interview: Chris Cornell on ‘Pearl Jam Twenty,’ reuniting Soundgarden and the impact of the Seattle music scene" by Kristopher Tapley, uproxx.com. October 05, 2011.

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• I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

  Don McLean

  Giving Up, Want, Wells

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• I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

  Lucy Hale

  Ideas, Trying, Acting

  "We Shine the Spotlight on PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Star Lucy Hale". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 8, 2013.

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