Singing Quotes - Page 41

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with new arrangements and new contexts as time goes by.

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

I think I understand what bands want, just from having made records myself. I understand what it takes to get a good vocal sound, or to make people comfortable in the studio. From minor things like their headphone mix - and if a singer's singing, how they should hear themselves - to how to make people feel that they're getting exactly what they want. All those things, I think, are an advantage, especially the part about having done it myself. I'm not just an engineer who records the sounds well. I'm not afraid to take chances.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!