Singing Quotes - Page 24

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.