Singing Quotes - Page 26

I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I miss my singing career very much.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

Do you hear the children singing?

It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.

I'm learning how to work my voice. I got some songs that you probably wouldn't even know it's me singing on there. I will sit there and take 20 takes until I hit that note right. It's different on stage - you've got to hit the notes that one time.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

Singing is really where I got my start in church.