Best Singing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if you're singing properly, depending on who you're mimicking.”

Ifs Feels Trying Artist Singing Mimicking

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my soul, that I can't express just acting by writing music or singing music. It takes the emotions to another level. I feel really connected to something else, you know.”

Knows Feels Writing Heart I Can Soul Levels Acting Emotion My Heart Singing Inspired Connected My Soul Writing Music

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.”

Feels Littles Moments Song Secret Singing Like Me Vulnerable Triumph Vulnerability Shed

Author:Brett Dennen

“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.”

Giving Stills Audience Alive Fronts Duty Late Singing Devotion Keep Going Bless Concerts 80s God Bless Devotion To Duty

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.”

Practice Singing Lists

Author:Josie Ho

“I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.”

Ifs Knows Kind Different Shows Action Social Groups Singing Dollars Charity Folks All Kinds Cheer Troops Tickets Heroines Reception Tithe Social Action

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.”

Dream Stars Acting Rocks Singing Dancing Shining Plus Rock Star Alleys Singing Dancing

Author:Coco Jones

“Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.”

Kind Acting Singing Dancing Excited Performing Interviews Get Real

Author:Coco Jones

“I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.”

Thinking Feels Important Shows Would Be Modern Figures Painting Singing Versions Renaissance Kim

Author:Kanye West

“I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].”

Thinking Knows Men Way Play Film Spirit Wonder Creative Issues Balance Pure Singing Lonely Army Excited Woods Joyful Childlike Swiss Tracking Childlike Wonder

Author:Paul Dano

“I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .”

Want Trying Song Rich Focus Trouble Figures Right Now Singing

Author:Sammy Hagar

“There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.”

Certain Fun Doors Style Singing Chivalry

Author:Josh Groban

“I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me.”

People Children Song Laughing Influence Huge Listening Grew Grew Up Singing Bills Carols Amazing Experiences

Author:MC Lyte

“I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I'm no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.”

People Thinking Shows Reality Able My Own Singing Exciting Originals Transition Every Second Reality Shows Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.”

Thinking Shows Voice My Own Type Music Is Singing Originals Really Cool Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.”

School Church Growing Up Growing Grew Dad Band Grew Up Singing Seven My Dad Kansas

Author:Martina McBride

“I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.”

Actors Acting Singing Method Singers Method Acting

Author:Tony Bennett

“Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Sometimes Song Teacher Dog Singing Cat

Author:Tony Bennett

“Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.”

Different Song Records Singing Shots Essence Video Jamaica

Author:Tyga

“Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.”

Singing Harmony

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.”

People Thinking Giving Ends Enough Night Watches Audience Rocks Singing Credit Rising Melody Rock N Roll Transport Toronto Groove Barometer Owning It

Author:Sarah Harmer

“I remember getting up and singing with them at Mile One arena in St. John's. It was such an honour that they asked me, but all I could think of was, "But I'm such a fan!" Later I sang on one of their records, that was awesome.”

Thinking Remember Records Fans Singing Miles Honour Arena

Author:Sarah Harmer

“I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.”

Ifs Knows Song Voice Fame Singing Ears Tone Deaf Singing Songs

Author:Dominic Balli

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.”

Knows Singing

Author:Sharon Jones

“Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.”

I Can Can Do Singing

Author:Sharon Jones

“I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."”

Knows Want Song Found College Industry Singing Okay Songwriting

Author:PJ Harvey

“Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.”

Knows Used Courses Watches Mom Singing Rain My Favorite My Mom Theatre Backgrounds Genes Soundtracks Singing In The Rain

Author:Jillian Hervey

“It was like I couldn't even begin to tell my mom I was singing. I didn't want anyone to think that she was trying to get me to sing. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it on my own. I really wanted to do a completely different thing.”

Thinking Want Trying Different Wanted My Own Mom Prove Singing My Mom Different Things

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.”

Thinking Should Persons Might Jobs Singing Dancing Reasonable Singing And Dancing

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.”

Way Stills Mother Found Born Behinds Terrible Singing Blame Actresses I Realized Grades Songwriting Entertainers Sixth Grade

Author:Stevie Nicks

“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.”

Thinking Needs Said Different Enough Running Song My Own Rich Trump Republican Singing Program Voters

Author:Jane Mayer

“The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.”

Thinking Needs Hours Danger Capable Singing Unions Defeat Critical Soviet Soviet Union Hymns Shrinking

Author:Leon Trotsky

“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.”

“Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.”

People Streets Singing Dancing Musical Extremes Diverse Jamaica

Author:Kreesha Turner

“When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.”

People Thinking Firsts Long I Can Kids School Young Song Enjoy Listening Long Time Singing Clubs Satisfying Pubs Wales

Author:Tom Jones

“I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.”

Realizing Singing Saving

Author:Tom Jones

“I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.”

Used Stage Comfortable Singing

Author:Paul McCartney

“I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.”

Able Acting Singing Hopefully Venture

Author:Elizabeth Tan

“I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.”

Taken Lessons Singing

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the last day of filming we had to just get into the back of our sound mixer's van and record a really crappy, rough version of the singing then. For some reason that was one of the most fun days.”

Men Reason Lasts Film Fun Sound Records Singing Army Versions Rough Vans Last Day Soundtracks Swiss Fun Day

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.”

People Real Today Spiritual Song Culture Church Messages News Singing Program Hunger Seeking Offering Preaching Good News Bad News Singing Songs

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.”

Hate Voice Comfortable Singing I Hate

Author:Cass McCombs

“I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.”

Long Has Beens I Can Remember Used Song My Own Singing Theater Musical Used To Be Choir Musical Theater

Author:Cass McCombs

“I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.”

Thinking Way Character Sound Voice Natural Singing Falsetto

Author:Cass McCombs

“I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.”

Thinking Singing Studios Drag

Author:Cass McCombs

“The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."”

Way Firsts Looks Song Lines Singing Crosses Bass

Author:Petra Haden

“I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.”

Wanted Fun Dog Band Projects Singing Musical Vocal Violin Backup

Author:Petra Haden

“My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.”

People Knows Writing Mean Fun Ability Worry Impossible Singing Knack Forte

Author:Petra Haden

“Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.”

Different Age Natural Growing Up Growing Heard Singing Harmony Different Music

Author:Petra Haden

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