Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Simone

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Nina Arianda

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Neil Diamond

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

Patti Page

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Patsy Cline

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Patti LaBelle

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Meg White

I'm just not used to singing that much.

Brad Paisley

I never thought I'd be singing this for my friend.

Coco Lee

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

Eric Clapton

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Harry Chapin

I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

David Foster Wallace

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...

Scott Westerfeld

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

Steven Morrissey

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

Ricky Skaggs

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

Jimmy Rushing

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Heather O'Neill

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Hilary Duff

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

Red Buttons

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

Tom Jones

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

Tom Jones

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Mario Vazquez

I will always be singing.

Minnie Driver

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Nana Mouskouri

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

Nana Mouskouri

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Lonnie Donegan

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Malcolm X

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Paula Abdul

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

Kelli O'Hara

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.