Top 100 Singing Songs Quotes
#1. I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.
Diane Keaton
#2. When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
Colbie Caillat
#4. I'm not Prince Charming. I'm the bad guy that sneaks into the castle when Prince Charming is off singing songs in the woods. I'm the one with the big cock that bends needy Cinderella over. And I'm the one that makes her scream until her throat's raw and she can't sing a note.
Kenya Wright
#5. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.
Sinead O'Connor
#6. Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they're asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
Douglas Adams
#7. I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.
Carrie Underwood
#8. I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing !
Mutya Buena
#9. Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.
Michelle Malone
#10. Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday
#11. I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
Mavis Staples
#12. When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.
Joan Jett
#13. I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.
Dierks Bentley
#14. When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
Tom Wopat
#15. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.
John Piper
#16. There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
Garet Garrett
#17. Everyone knows how creative the Scots are.
They're always sculpting, painting, singing songs, & writing plays.
They invented television, the telephone, & deep-fried Mars bars.
David Baillie
#18. Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.
Kim Gordon
#19. When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
Jim Dale
#20. Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Brian Andreas
#21. Open your heart; hear the blessings all around you singing songs of love.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
Rodney Atkins
#23. I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.
Celine Dion
#24. For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.
Julie Andrews
#25. The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.
Charlie Puth
#26. My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
David Crosby
#27. You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.
Jason Aldean
#28. Singing songs that make you slit your wrists
Gerard Way
#29. Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Del Shannon
#30. I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.
Ryan Adams
#31. We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.
Mavis Staples
#32. Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
Colbie Caillat
#33. I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.
Tom Felton
#34. Singing didn't really come naturally to me, I don't think. I had to really work at it. I just kept singing. I never was really worried about it, though, because I was writing songs, and that was the most important thing to me.
Tom Odell
#35. I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale
#36. I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.
Bonnie Tyler
#37. I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.
Chris Isaak
#38. I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.
Katie Finneran
#39. Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs.
Vonda Shepard
#40. When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.
Miranda Cosgrove
#41. The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
#42. singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's
Chris Dolan
#43. I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
Madeleine Peyroux
#44. Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.
Sue Thoele
#45. I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.
Jack Johnson
#46. Trust me Miki. Nothing cures heartache faster than a bunch of girls singing pop songs badly at the top of thier lungs.
Mark Crilley
#47. If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#48. I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.
Lou Doillon
#49. I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
Duncan Sheik
#50. Songs just spring into my head. Silly, isn't it. Sometimes old Goody Stickle says that it's Mossflower singing through me. Now and then she'll say it's a sight of season the hasn't yet shone
upon.
-Gonff
Brian Jacques
#51. Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.
Garrison Keillor
#52. One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.
Kesha Rogers
#53. The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.
Travie McCoy
#54. I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.
Ray Stevens
#55. It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.
Matt Berninger
#56. Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.
Jake Bugg
#57. I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Will Oldham
#58. When I have sung my songs to you, I'll sing no more,' goes the old ballad. But for one faithful listener, Nelson Eddy is still singing.
Ruskin Bond
#59. When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!
Brantley Gilbert
#60. It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Liam Payne
#61. I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits ... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.
Shreya Ghoshal
#62. Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#63. I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
Scout Niblett
#64. People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
Natalie Cole
#65. I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.
Juliette Lewis
#66. When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
Sky Ferreira
#67. I'm learning how to work my voice. I got some songs that you probably wouldn't even know it's me singing on there. I will sit there and take 20 takes until I hit that note right. It's different on stage - you've got to hit the notes that one time.
Dreezy
#68. 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
#69. I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.
Kyo Maclear
#70. I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
#71. I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
Mandy Patinkin
#72. I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
J. D. Souther
#73. I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.
David Levithan
#74. I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#75. When michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'
Sean Lock
#77. It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.
Prince Philip
#78. I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
Kina Grannis
#79. The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.
Thia Megia
#80. I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
Brian McKnight
#81. Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Mike Love
#82. I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
Bruno Mars
#83. How lucky we are! We are singing our songs, dancing our dances, and living our lives.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
Orson Welles
#85. Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
Natasha Bedingfield
#86. I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.
Ashley Monroe
#87. When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.
Charlotte Eriksson
#88. While you're singing something romantic, I can't get the lyrics to 'Love and Marriage' out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#89. We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...
Brad Paisley
#90. We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.
Michael Franti
#91. During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.
Daesung
#92. Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
Brett Dennen
#93. All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
Bobby Vinton
#94. The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.
Heber J. Grant
#95. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
Percy Sledge
#96. I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
David Nail
#97. Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
Roshon Fegan
#98. I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
Garrett Hedlund
#99. I am not the person who is singing
I am the silent one inside ...
I am not my house, my car, my songs
They are only stops along my way ...
Paula Cole
#100. Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
Angel Olsen
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