Singing Well Quotes

#1. I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Mary Travers

#2. Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given ... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

Anita O'Day

#3. Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

John Davidson

#4. If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

George Jones

#5. I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Rosemary Clooney

#6. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend
a lousy poem.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

Alan Cumming

#8. There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe.

Dave Eggers

#9. My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

Eric Bachmann

#10. Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.

Hilary Duff

#11. Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Dick Van Dyke

#12. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

Andrea Bocelli

#13. Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

#14. Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Muriel Spark

#15. I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

Rosemary Clooney

#16. I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

Renee Fleming

#17. I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing !

Mutya Buena

#18. Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

Joe Cocker

#19. My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.

Clayton Snyder

#20. I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.

Ray Stevens

#21. I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Rita Rudner

#22. Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

Tina Weymouth

#24. Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.

Kandyse McClure

#25. If one is going to spend her afternoon singing hymns to the great porcelain goddess, she might as well do it in a really plush ladies room. Stupid fear of public speaking.

Molly Harper

#26. One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

Terry Pratchett

#27. And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Bob Dylan

#28. Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

Jackie DeShannon

#29. Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Jeff Daniels

#30. I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a few years ago, so I don't mind singing.

Suresh Raina

#31. Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Glen Hansard

#32. She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh

Laura Joplin

#33. You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

Hank Williams Jr.

#34. Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#35. So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Janet Morris

#36. I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

Alex Parks

#37. Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

Arthur Godfrey

#38. Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

Blake Shelton

#39. Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

John Fletcher

#40. I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.

Kelly Hu

#41. In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you'll find your way home.

Alan Cohen

#42. It is an ajtys - a singing-duel. The boy and girl stand in the eye of the village carrying on a mocking well-I-sort-of-like-you-even-if-there's-one-or-two-weird-things-about-you-for-instance - kind of game while the tune darts in and out of qobyz and dombra strummed and plucked.

Thomas Pynchon

#43. When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

Bobby Vinton

#44. I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

Mandy Moore

#45. If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

Loretta Lynn

#46. I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

Aretha Franklin

#47. I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.

Tony Bennett

#48. My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Oliver

#49. I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

David Crosby

#50. His thoughts go to Emma Bovary strutting before the mirror after her first big afternoon. I have a lover! I have a lover! sings Emma to herself. Well, let poor Bev Shaw go home and do some singing too. And let him stop calling her poor Bev Shaw. If she is poor, he is bankrupt.

Anonymous

#51. Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of thing. After all those labors I had to complete for my evil cousin Eurystheus, well...I don't want to be that guy, you know?

Rick Riordan

#52. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

Eddie Van Halen

#53. I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

Gloria Estefan

#54. No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

Robert M. Gates

#55. 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

#56. The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

Brian Wilson

#57. Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Liza Minnelli

#58. Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'
Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

Cassandra Clare

#59. Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Aretha Franklin

#60. Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

Neil Diamond

#61. 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

#62. I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

Roy Haynes

#63. Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing:

'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride!
And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!

Patrick Rothfuss

#64. Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Kristin Chenoweth

#65. I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Don McLean

#66. Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

Holly Hood

#67. The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Charles Spurgeon

#68. All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

#69. Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

Angie Brown

#70. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arthur Rubinstein

#71. Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.

Al Jarreau

#72. I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Gregory Harrison

#73. Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Eoin Colfer

#74. 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?

Gerald Durrell

#75. 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

#76. Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.

Roy Hargrove

#77. I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

Bonnie Tyler

#78. I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

Elvis Presley

#79. I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I hope this opens up a whole new concert world for me. I had so much fun and it went so well, I hope it leads to more.

Aaron Tveit

#80. I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

David Johansen

#81. How people will talk about one's doings!" Fancy exclaimed.
"Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can't blame other people for singing 'em.

Thomas Hardy

#82. I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

Namie Amuro

#83. That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Thomas Hardy

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

Leonard Cohen

#85. I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

Yip Harburg

#86. I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

Naturi Naughton

#87. When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.

Paolo Nutini

#88. All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.

Mary Hunter Austin

#89. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

Charles Kingsley

#90. Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing I won't ever be lonely again

Conor Oberst

#91. Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.

Paris Hilton

#92. 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

#93. I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Amy Winehouse

#94. I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#95. An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#96. It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

Douglas Adams

#97. In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

Colin Hay

#98. Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

Jordin Sparks