Singing Quotes - Page 27

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

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.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.