Singing Quotes - Page 54

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

I can't say what my greatest strength between acting and singing is...I'll leave that to the critics. Maybe my best strength is performance itself, being with the audience and feeling what they feel, bouncing off of them.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table...

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

Where's the need of singing now?

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?