Top 100 Quotes About Karaoke
#1. I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
Sam Palladio
#2. Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?
James Corden
#3. I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.
Justin Hayward
#4. If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.
James Corden
#5. I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.
David Walton
#6. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke
#7. I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
Hugh Jackman
#8. Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
Jason Aldean
#9. You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
Aaron Paul
#11. It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.
Emily Blunt
#12. I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
Clive Owen
#13. I have a huge repertoire. I love karaoke.
Diablo Cody
#14. There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Paul Neilan
#15. Karaoke divides humanity into two groups: those who don't want to sing and shouldn't be compelled, and those who do and shouldn't be allowed.
Dennis Vickers
#16. I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that's weird and not fun.
Skylar Astin
#17. I always used to love singing. The first song I knew all the words to was 'Girl of My Best Friend' by Elvis. My dad introduced me to his music, and when I got given a karaoke machine by my granddad, my cousin and I recorded a load of Elvis tracks. I wish I still had them so I could have a listen.
One Direction
#19. I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
#20. When I pick songs for karaoke, I have three concerns: (1) What will this song say about me? (2) How will I sound singing it? and (3) How will it make people feel?
Mindy Kaling
#21. Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.
Johnny Marr
#22. True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.
Mindy Kaling
#23. I can't watch American Idol ... it's like karaoke without the booze.
Tracy Morgan
#24. New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
Olly Murs
#25. I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.
John Lloyd Young
#26. I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth.
Gwendoline Christie
#27. He should've let her drown.
Tally Cruise had the most God-awful voice Michael had ever heard, and he'd heard some doozies in Asian karaoke bars. Fortunately the violence of the storm, and the thunder of the waves, drowned out most of it.
Cherry Adair
#28. I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
Samantha Barks
#29. I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Mandy Moore
#30. I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.
Taylor Swift
#31. People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.
Will Ferguson
#32. No more Karaoke for you!
Jessica
Apologize or your out!
But ... but you love me!
And we'll learn to live without you, too. unless you apologize.
Shelly Laurenston
#33. Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackie Chan
#34. I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
Pink
#35. The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Andy Hargreaves
#36. My father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga,
Rachel Higginson
#37. I went to a Karaoke Bar last night that didn't play any 70s music, at first I was afriad, oh I was petrified
Stewart Francis
#38. I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!
Johnny Depp
#41. Tacos will grow on Christmas trees before I learn to carry a tune. Fortunately, it doesn't matter. In karaoke, talent means nada; enthusiasm is everything. What I lack in talent, I make up for in passion. Hence my karaoke problem.
Rob Sheffield
#42. Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.
Tom Dreesen
#43. But right now, karaoke is one of the places where we go to form our own culture club, which is one of the millions of things a relationship is - building a shared language out of the things that fire up your blood. Couples need as many of those languages as they can get.
Rob Sheffield
#44. I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and brought me to singing lessons. I had always been writing poems and songs.
Cassie Steele
#45. I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
Jared Leto
#46. Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
Chris Rock
#47. The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
David Letterman
#48. I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#49. I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.
Will Ferrell
#50. The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
Ted Nelson
#51. I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
Yvonne Strahovski
#52. So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.
Grant Morrison
#53. You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.
Sebastian Stan
#54. My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.
Janeane Garofalo
#55. My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
Jeff Kinney
#56. We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.
Shawn Amos
#57. For all karaoke freaks around the nation, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of those sacred anthems. It's the kind of song that announces, "Dearly beloved, we have so totally gathered here today.
Rob Sheffield
#58. I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.
Chelsea Peretti
#59. When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.
Megan Hilty
#60. I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.
Jake M. Johnson
#61. After the church ceased to exist, an outfit calling itself the First Amendment Protection Society, Inc. - the largest operator of adult bookstores, topless bars, Internet porn sites, and karaoke cocktail lounges in the United States - intimidated
Dean Koontz
#62. My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.
Nick Faldo
#63. You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
Gary Clark Jr.
#64. I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.
Serena Williams
#66. What the hell just happened? I mean, come on. Throwing in a hot looking demon with romantic intentions is so disturbing. It's like Chax doing karaoke, way out disturbing.
Karen Swart
#67. Whoever invented karaoke is evil. They should be shot between the eyes with a dull bullet.
Emma Chase
#68. I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.
Michael Weatherly
#69. There's just been a couple of moments where - we did the one [ Carpool Karaoke] with Justin Bieber, which kind of went crazy and I think is at, like 65 million views on YouTube .
James Corden
#70. My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do.
June Diane Raphael
#71. I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.
Fred Schneider
#72. I'm not going to deny that I enjoy a good four or five hour karaoke session. But who doesn't?
Ken Marino
#73. From a floor below someone was singing with a karaoke machine, Paul McCartney's 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time,' completely out of tune. 'Beyond doubt the worst Christmas song ever written,' New York said to me, quietly. 'Like a request to God to end the universe.
Glen Duncan
#74. The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.
Young-Ha Kim
#75. I'm a YouTube star, let's put it that way!That sounds like a karaoke star with balls.
Pablo Francisco
#77. Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
Nathan Fillion
#78. My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.
Sarah Paulson
#79. I don't like karaoke because the mics are always so worn out. The quality of the mics is such that you're always going (screaming) "Yeah, yeah!" It's like sometimes I'm too professional to get up and do it.
Rebel Wilson
#80. I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.
Diablo Cody
#81. I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice
#82. I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.
Matt Smith
#83. I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
Eric Andre
#85. When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.
Mark McGrath
#86. There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.
Ishmael Reed
#87. I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.
Taylor Swift
#88. I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
Hoda Kotb
#89. Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.
Kelly Williams Brown
#90. I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.
Jeremy Renner
#91. Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
Robin Gibb
#92. I shook my head. "Not Interested" I said.
he straightened up. "Not interested in what?"
In you." I couldn't be more blunt.
Excuse me, miss, but I was going to ask if you would like to sign up for karaoke.
Karen E. Olson
#93. I'm a big karaoke fan and I also love Justin Bieber unashamedly.
Evan Rachel Wood
#94. Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
Maria Sharapova
#95. Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.
Dhani Jones
#96. But we live in a karaoke society... Many people feel they have to dance to someone else's tune, to sing someone else's song.
Francis Dewar
#97. I can say now that fear has no place in my daily life. I'm confident that I can handle whatever comes my way, just like the Carolyn Harris I was at fourteen--the karaoke loving captain of the Science Olympiad team, the steadfast friend, the girl who dreamed big...the Girl Most Likely to Succeed.
Lily Foster
#98. Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
Zac Goldsmith
#99. I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing!
Carrie Underwood
#100. I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
Radha Mitchell
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