Singing Quotes - Page 9

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.

When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

Sing songs that none have sung

Singing is easy. The proof is always in the living.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

My singing is a mix between Jericho/ Fergie/ Jesus

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

If you're a dancer, study singing.