Best Singing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.”

Dies Boys Missing Singing Drinking Dry Pie Whiskey Bye Drinking Whiskey Bye Bye Chevy American Pie

Author:Don McLean

“The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.”

People Men Way Song Difficult Proud Singing My Way Convince Remarkable

Author:Christopher Lee

“We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"”

Needs Singing Wow

Author:Patrick Stump

“I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.”

Thinking Mean I Can Singing Cat Make You Think Cat Food

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.”

People Want Hands Song Wish Fans Special Talent Singing Treats Asking Come Up Shakes Impressed Hello Statues Entertainers Autographs

Author:Eddy Arnold

“I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.”

People Shows Next Millions Gone Four One Day Singing Gymnasiums Casper

Author:Leroy van Dyke

“I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.”

Fall Courses Next Stars Mines Singing Falling In Love Evening Brands Features Rays Coming Out Princess Accents New Orleans Animated Frogs Hometown Brand New Firefly Cajuns Tigger

Author:Jim Cummings

“I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.”

Thinking Knows Giving Littles Today Guy Girl Black White Walks Break Rocks Gay Singing Let Me Give Me Punk Trails Punk Rock Vapor Black Guys White Girl

Author:Ted Nugent

“Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.”

Felt Air Tomorrow Singing Melancholy Hung Comrade Kitsch Premonition Bunkers

Author:Robert Musil

“When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.”

Knows Littles Wanted School Turns Know How Car Dad Singing My Dad Singers Old School

Author:Leona Lewis

“Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.”

Trying Mean Winning Stars Loses Loss Rooms Victory Band Projects Singing Winner Acknowledge Theme Loser Punk Not Interested

Author:Torquil Campbell

“I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.”

Thinking Together Spiritual Form Singing Truest Singing Together

Author:Luke Pritchard

“Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.”

Thinking Grows Voice Stage Singing Training Dancing Train Singers Aesthetic Singing And Dancing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.”

Way Feels Matter Body Audience Rocks Stage Singing Typical

Author:Jenny Hval

“I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.”

People Writing Trying Three Voice My Own Singing Guitar Track Recorders

Author:Jenny Hval

“I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.”

Way Kind Different Together Voice Laughing Cry Type Singing Various Obsessed Tied Phases Accents

Author:Jenny Hval

“I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.”

Way Actors Approach Singing Singers Jersey Dialect

Author:John Lloyd Young

“I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.”

Giving Mind Kind Certain Sound Approach Singing Flavor Dialect

Author:John Lloyd Young

“I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.”

Thinking Way Kind Remember Law Guy Certain Found Sides Streets Singing Italian Jersey Confined New Jersey

Author:John Lloyd Young

“The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.”

Source: Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography

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

Love May Enough Can Do Love Is Singing True Love Neighbor Impress Being In Love

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.”

Ifs Want Giving Emotion Listening Singing Cheat

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.”

Ifs I Can Matter Enough Suffering Voice Stage Fronts Kings Singing Scared Naked Queens Intimate Pope

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.”

Ifs Want Giving Mean Use Certain Song Grows Voice Emotion Listening Singing Instruments Celebrate Live Every Day

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.”

Kind Stills Seems Wanted Used Guy House Watches Happened Type Singing Coffee Singers Get Up Intimate Nerves Songwriters Revealing Singer Songwriters Crosby Coffee Houses

Author:Kevin Nealon

“Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.”

Needs May Practice Singing Bird Window Sunlight Reminders Streaming

Book:Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

Source: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

“Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.”

Knows Wells Used Heaven Known Lord Ready Singing Devil Angel Clouds Glasses Peter Well Known Theologian Disputes Medieval Needles Anthem Archangel Slumps St Peter

Author:John Fowles

“In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.”

World Long Stills Passion Lost Voice Worry Greatness Singing Angel Perfection Eras Cooks Purity Score Imperfect Broadway Historic Barbara A Perfect World Imperfect World

Author:Rex Reed

“You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.”

Should Song Singing Ships Halfway Sinking Cruise Cruise Ships

Author:Simon Cowell

“I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.”

May Singing Nervous Sweat

Author:Ed Robertson

“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.”

Ifs Facts Spirit Certain Girl Opportunity Speak Language Talent Moon Singing Dues Tunes Peculiar Quarters Discovering Creepy Once Upon A Time Sloth Flutes Gnome Jade Fruitcake

Author:Ursula Vernon

“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?”

Knows Men World Trying Littles Real Shows Remember Film Guy Black White Singing Understood Frank Tenderness Black And White Show Me Real Men

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.”

Needs Order Progress Middle Proud News Singing Radio Reports

Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.”

Used Turns Hours Influence Majors Singing Piano Gears Mahler

Author:Paul McCartney

“When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.”

Needs Heart Stories Beautiful Singing Melody Embellishment

Author:Emmylou Harris

“I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.”

Thinking Joy Singing

Author:Emmylou Harris

“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”

“I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.”

School Left Bits Black Drama Singing Theater Musical University Sheep Musical Theater Black Sheep

Author:Sophie Cookson

“For people who don't know or didn't know that I started off as a singer, singing requires a certain level of drama, in itself. Honestly, it really prepared me to do this, and I've been really blessed to be able to transition into the acting world very smoothly.”

People Knows World Able Certain Levels Acting Drama Singing Blessed Prepared Singers Honestly Transition

Author:Naturi Naughton

“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.”

Different Play Young Opportunity Parent Acting Class Ready Grew Lessons Grew Up Singing Happenings Actresses Singers Different Things

Author:Naturi Naughton

“When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.”

Ifs Way Stories Song Can Do Audience Special Singing Dialogue Connecting Entertainers Monologues

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'”

Different Facts Would Be Jobs Night Song Behinds Possibility Duty Easier One Day Band Singing Response Singers Backgrounds Hey Restaurants Vocal Gigs Drummer Default

Author:Chris Cornell

“We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.”

Way Needs Creativity Singing Familiar Welcome New Ways Passing Away

Author:Michael Adam Hamilton

“If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.”

Ifs Thinking Men Enough Week Singing Praise Praise God

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.”

Feels Beautiful Joy Song Grace Expression Goodness Singing Devotion Release God's Grace

Author:Jack W. Hayford

“We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.”

Knows Problem Song Half Car Singing Bars Showers Making Up Favorite Song Karaoke

Author:Shawn Amos

“If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.”

Ifs Children Hands Bigs Running Faces Cry Drink Singing Scary Argentina

Author:Roisin Murphy

“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive”

Source: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

“No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.”

Men Long Self Personality Singing Conscious Critical Indian Civilized Self Conscious Hymns Chanting Welsh Drumming

Book:The devils of Loudon

Source: The devils of Loudon

“Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.”

Years Said Singing Seven

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

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