Best singing & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I would love to do a musical. When I did Fame L.A. for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.”

Years Mean Shows Heaven Waiting Acting Fame Singing Dancing Musical Cried Going To Work Singing Dancing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.”

Years Singing Clubs

Author:Randy Travis

“Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.”

Men Years Book Done Fun Singing Interviews Booze

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

Way Feels Years Use Used Spirit Strong Five Like You Singing Instruments Very Good Hearing My Way Five Years Opera Very Strong Tape

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.”

Ifs Years Today Joy Five Pure Husband Singing Horse Absolutes Bother Parks Five Years My Husband Riding Lungs Larry Joy And Happiness Five Year Olds Central Park Carousels Very Depressed

Author:Eda LeShan

“It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.”

Years Remember Voice Singing Years Ago Mum Joining Choir

Author:Susan Boyle

“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.”

Men Want Inspirational Years Home Kids School Felt Emotion Singing Very Good Experiments Cycles Mature Coming Home Frank Teenage Touchstones Good Years

Author:Iggy Pop

“A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.”

Want Years Artist Certain Song Responsibility Band Singing Sticks Solo

Author:Christopher Owens

“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.”

People Ifs World Years Has Beens Real Culture Wonder Imagine Impossible Groups Style Ten Singing Years Ago Indian Southern Signals Electronic Music Cockneys Amalgamation

Author:Alan Arkin

“I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.”

Years Young Night Study Records Saws Player Listening Singing Loud Relax Dozen Horns One Night Microphones Lester Young

Author:Marvin Gaye

“The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.”

Years Chance Singing Athlete Mutual Anthem Mutual Respect Singing The National Anthem

Author:Jeffrey Osborne

“I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.”

Years Bigs America Church Stage Singing Wounds Teenage Teenage Years Singing In Church

Author:Amy Grant

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”

People Ifs Years Mind Wells Enough Left Special Singing

Author:George Jones

“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.”

Years Wells Persons Play Song Term Stage Baby Arms Singing Standing Guitar Folks Singers Grandmother Acoustics Microphones Acoustic Guitar Old Song

Author:Pete Seeger

“I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.”

Years Littles School Drama Lessons Speech Singing My Friends Dancing

Author:Bella Heathcote

“I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.”

Years Singing

Author:Brenda Lee

“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”

Writing Years Wells Play Four Stage Band Singing Who I Am Fortunate Get Back Four Years Solo Gigs Pulse Groove Good Bands

Author:Arthur Godfrey

“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”

Thinking Years Firsts Self Careers Six Singing Conscious Weight Harder Comment Self Conscious

Author:Kenny Rogers

“I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.”

Years Believe Littles I Believe Voice Singing Yoga Affected

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

People Years Voice Five Singing Decided Dancing Five Years Comeback Great Voice

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.”

Trying Years Persons Enough Water Half Cry Baby Singing Years Ago Let Me Brave Musical Cry Baby

Author:Johnny Depp

“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”

Years Used Church Five Singing Five Years Exposed Solo Five Year Olds

Book:I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.”

Years Memories Five Cold Kissing Singing Mouths Years Ago Damn Five Years Locked December Yale Bollywood Leading Ladies

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.”

Years Found Easy Church Ten Singing Critics London Enjoyed Consumers Thoughtful Energetic

Author:Gary Hamel

“I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.”

Years Different Shows Song Comedy Singing Musical Variety Tunes Broadway Broadway Shows Comedy Shows Show Tunes

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.”

People Years Ends Shows Night Song Generations Dad Singing Shoulders Spectrum

Author:Andy Biersack

“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.”

Knows Years Two Remember Know How Singing Two Years Two Year Olds

Author:Glen Campbell

“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.”

Years Littles Stills Lasts Song Fall Week Keys Right Now Spring Singing Bird Intense Confused Length Bird Song

Author:Craig Thompson

“When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.”

Years Shows Kids School Found Talent Singing High School Female Luck Blow Singers Classic Blast Talent Show Celine Female Singers

Author:Paolo Nutini

“It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.”

People Ifs World Years Ideas Hard Kids Can Do Singing Lonely Independent Dancing Idiot Chickens Zombie Graphic Dukes Yale Columbia Pickles Singing And Dancing Diarrhea Lonely World

Author:Lloyd Kaufman

“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.”

Knows Way Trying Years Play Remember Song Singing Embrace Surprise Our Family New Ways Recipes Improvising

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.”

Writing Years Two House Stuff College Singing Coffee Two Years Coffee Houses

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.”

Years Listening Grew Grew Up Singing Clubs Performers Cabaret

Author:Annaleigh Ashford

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Made Sometimes Age Wanted Certain Couple Limits Singing Years Ago Guitar Jail Realising Realised Playing Guitar Loving Myself

Author:Theresa Wayman

“I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.”

Way Years Long I Can Song Written Long Time Singing Inspired

Author:Angel Olsen

“I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.”

Years Kind Night Stuff Rooms Brother Listening Summer Singing Seven Eight Brothers And Sisters Living Room Older Brother Summer Nights

Author:Al Jarreau

“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.”

“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

“I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.”

Years Kind Singing Cat Pops Fascinated Zeitgeist

Author:Josh Gad

“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.”

People Giving Trying Years Firsts Song Known Break Groups Special Kings Singing Singers Organized Just One Treatment Here And There Monotony Trios Special Treatment

Author:Nat King Cole

“My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.”

Years Firsts Shows Bigs Jobs Singing Radio Walkers Tennessee

Author:Dolly Parton

“Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.”

Years Trouble Ready Couple Singing Financial Humble Saved Jail Truthful Music Business

Author:Marty Stuart

“I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.”

Writing Years Has Beens Two Dream Song Parent My Own Records Couple Singing My Friends Radio Albums Locals Two Years Stations Fifteen I Had A Dream Radio Stations Two Year Olds

Author:Lene Marlin

“The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.”

People Feels Years Ideas Guy Player Singing Guitar Starting Welcome Depressing Stools Blues Music Preconceived Ideas

Author:B. B. King

“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”

Ifs Years Mean I Can Country President Five Rights Equal Singing Five Years Equal Rights

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.”

Years Long Stills Reason Done Play Fun Missing Singing Twenties Guitar Playing Guitar Twenty Somethings

Author:Tommy Lee

“It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Next Happened Stage Singing Presses Finals Nuts Idols New Year Conferences Australian Whirlwind Press Conferences New Years Day

Author:Kate DeAraugo

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