Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Carl Sandburg

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Conor Maynard

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

Alfredo Kraus

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Natalie Cole

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Adrienne Barbeau

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

Adam Lambert

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Alicia Keys

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

Alice Smith

I came to singing organically.

Anne Lamott

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Andy Partridge

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

Crystal Waters

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Conrad Aiken

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Conor Oberst

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Don Henley

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.

Clare Bowen

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Dolly Parton

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

Dinah Shore

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

Anne Hathaway

Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

Andrew Bird

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Claude Debussy

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Sam Elliott

She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Marcos Baghdatis

I told them to keep it down, don't say anything rude. Today (Friday), they were much better. They were singing stuff about me. It's better I think.

Compay Segundo

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.