Singing Quotes - Page 19

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

My father started me singing in church.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite