Singing Quotes

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The song becomes the meaning itself through the vibratory qualities. When we begin to catch the vibratory qualities...the song begins to sing us...I don't know anymore if I am finding that song or if I am that song.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

We need music," Nico said. "How's your singing?" "Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all." "It's not so easy. We need music." I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche.

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album