Singing Quotes - Page 7

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time.

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself".

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.