“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.” KnowsFirstsSingingSeasonsRadioStudios Author:Frank Ocean
“I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHeartKindSingingCharmGospel Music Author:Patti Page
“I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.” KnowsTryingHelpingHonestSingingHelp MeStay True Author:Jamie Foxx
“Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.” KnowsActingTreeSingingIncrediblesHillsCastingMiaTree Hill Author:Kate Voegele
“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.” KnowsFirstsLittlesMadeImportantKidsSongBandSingingLittle KidFavorite Bands Author:Chris Cornell
“I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.” KnowsReasonShowsGuySongSingingDrawsCateringR Kelly Author:R. Kelly
“Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.” KnowsGrowsSingingI RealizedFallen Author:Kassie DePaiva
“Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.” PeopleKnowsStillsJoyShareEventsSingingReception Author:Lee Greenwood
“We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters” KnowsMenEndsMatterHandsFightingCausesVoiceMy OwnKindnessBrokenSingingSpite Author:Jewel
“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.” KnowsTryingKnow HowSingingPersona Author:Lana Del Rey
“If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.” IfsKnowsTalkingSingingHillsPretendingOver The Hill Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing” KnowsFirstsSongReadingSoundRecordsKingsLessonsSingingSingersProseMelodyMakersReviews Author:Black Francis
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.” KnowsWayNeedsMatterHateHeardRevolutionWallArmsSingingSittingOvercomingBusyFolksCompromiseBloodyLocksHostilePointingToo BusyHate MeKnotsSitting AroundReverendsNo CompromiseThey Hate Me Author:Malcolm X
“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.” KnowsWorldWayTryingKindSometimesDoneUseDreamKnow HowWallSingingBridgesInsanityPretendingNew ThingsNew WaysPretense Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.” KnowsPerfectSingingHorseComparisonRidingFenceHorse Riding Author:Luciano Pavarotti
“Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.” KnowsHeartTodayTechnologyKnow HowSingingSingersBack In The Day Author:Christina Aguilera
“The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.” KnowsReasonStoriesWantedSongSingingBusMusic BusinessPlaying MusicTelling StoriesWholeheartedlyBillboardsSinging Songs Author:Johnny Reid
“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."” PeopleKnowsWantSaidShowsSpeakTypeSingingRapHookSpeak English Author:Pitbull
“God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light.” KnowsShouldLightFacesHeavenWhiteKissingSingingRaisedDustDeniedIdolsNicheBrake Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.” KnowsWayI CanSongSingingMy Way Author:Billie Holiday
“Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.” KnowsWayWantFeelsBigsSecretMusicStyleSinging Author:Ella Fitzgerald
“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.” PeopleKnowsDoneMotherFatherBornDadMetsSingingResearchEuropeMovedRaisedMy DadItalianRomeOperaAlabamaDenmarkCopenhagen Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.” KnowsTeachKnow HowSingingJazz Author:Tony Bennett
“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.” KnowsI CanTwoHomeMy OwnStepsWorstSingingDancingClubsRhythmDancerPrivacySnapsGreatest FearSinging And Dancing Author:Hope Solo
“I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.” ThinkingKnowsMenSpeakCausesAliveSingingWho I AmSpeaks OutMistreat Author:Alberta Hunter
“I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.” IfsKnowsWritingPersonsI CanSongSoundMy OwnSingingLove LifeInability Author:Alexis Taylor
“At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.” KnowsPlayUniverseParticularSingingRootsPatternsRhythmCharacteristicsParticlesFrequency Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt
“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.” PeopleKnowsOrderDealsRecordsFansFrontsGoes OnBeatsSingingLabelsIdolsContestsAmerican Idol Author:Jake Owen
“I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.” KnowsSongSinging Author:Mary Hunter Austin
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.” KnowsDoneSchoolActingClassTakenSinging Author:Patrice Lovely
“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.” KnowsWellsMotherSpeakSoundVoiceHoursMy OwnTalkingQuietSingingDown AndInterviewsAbout YourselfAccusedBeing In LoveForumsRoad Trip Author:Ben Affleck
“I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.” ThinkingKnowsLinesNumbersMillionsSingingCrossesStartingMeant To Be Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.” IfsKnowsMatterDoneLastsSpeakStuffMinutesRocksPoetBandSingingAskingSevenBrilliantCriticizeBobResortsDylanEaglesRock BandsZeppelins Author:Charlie Sheen
“I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.” KnowsWayLooksPlayMightPurposeSimpleWonderPlayerStyleSingingMelodyUnusualLook At MeAccompany Author:Dave Matthews
“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMindStillsDifferentClearFocusMusicianSingingHappeningsWanderDrumming Author:Brett Dennen
“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.” KnowsImportantSometimesVoiceImaginationSingingMusicalDevicesExpressiveVowelsEnergizing Author:Dolora Zajick
“Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsReasonFightingOpinionSingingAffectionHobbiesTerrifiedPositively Author:SZA
“When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWonderfulStageSingingPerformersTaking Pictures Author:Carrie Underwood
“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” KnowsBodyAbleActorsKnow HowBattleComfortableSingingSittingMarkDown AndTablesDancingScreensBlockSitting DownSwagger Author:Columbus Short
“I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.” KnowsYearsTwoRememberKnow HowSingingTwo YearsTwo Year Olds Author:Glen Campbell
“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsFeelingsArtistFeltHonestHighestSingingGoodsThrillUrgency Author:Steve Ross
“It's been a while. I haven't seen the actual gag reel they put on the DVD. I just saw the DVD myself, so I know that it's going to be some version of what we saw at our wrap party. Some of the funniest things probably wouldn't make it to the DVD and that involved Ryan O'Neal singing and they intercut that with the American Idol judges judging him, which was pretty funny.” KnowsPartySawsHavensJudgingInvolvedSingingVersionsIdolsWrapsDvdsAmerican IdolGags Author:Emily Deschanel
“Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.” PeopleIfsKnowsLongStillsEnoughPastReadingWalksCitiesStreetsLike YouTypePersonalitySingingAtmosphereSongwritingPersonality TypesBusking Author:Glen Hansard
“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindLittlesDoeStillsIdeasAgeStuffBitsLaughingCuttingLittle BitSingingOkayEdgesPopsNo IdeaFiftyBelieve In MeLongevityPop MusicSpearsCutting EdgeHeartbreakerNsync Author:Pat Benatar
“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.” KnowsEndsWholeWantedSoundMy OwnPowerfulCoupleBandSingingPerformancesAimInspiredGuitarExcitedHeavyVersionsRhythmStampsLive Performance Author:Panda Bear
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.” KnowsIdeasSongLove YouTomorrowSingingMexican Author:Larry Wall
“Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.” KnowsWayTryingYearsPlayRememberSongSingingEmbraceSurpriseOur FamilyNew WaysRecipesImprovising Author:Bobby McFerrin
“Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.” KnowsWellsHas BeensStillsGivenVoiceLosesMonthsSingingAppreciatePerformancesSeasonsThank God Author:Anita O'Day