Quotes about Singing

"Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious."
-Virgil

"The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song."
-Charles Kuralt

"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that."
-Aretha Franklin

"I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down."
-Faith Hill

"I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice... she was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick."
-Arthur Lee

"No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in."
-Tia Carrere

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Miscellaneous methods of Civil Disobedience: Standing in front of City Hall and chanting the word 'pudding' until one's demands are met. Phoning members of the 'establishment' and singing 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now' into the phone. Dressing as a policeman and then skipping. Pretending to be an artichoke but punching people as they pass."
-Woody Allen

"Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door."
-Ana Gasteyer

"The discipline of singing early music has a special sound -- (it's) very clear."
-John Poole

"She learned it all, she does it all. ... Everybody's doing everything. They're really singing on the set. We recorded their vocals with the orchestra before we shot, but then we had them sing live on the set, so that when I got to editing, I ... could use their recorded vocal or their live vocal."
-Susan Stroman

"I got into coming to the Carmel Youth Center because I heard they were doing recordings. Kim just happened to hear me singing around here, and he liked what he heard. A few months later, we got this record done."
-Sam Skemp

"We have provided the young people with the tools to return to Jewish life, ... To see the young people singing at Shabbat and to see the elderly who have very little and not have to choose between food and medicine — to know we played a meaningful role was very moving."
-Jeffrey Klein

"We blues singers are condemned. But I let them know this: If what I'm singing sends me to hell, I don't know how to get to heaven because I ain't lying. It's in your heart, and it's what you feel."
-Henry Townsend

"This is my ninth year to sing with the chorus. I joined after I retired and I certainly enjoy singing with them. Our average age is 72 and we have a great time together. We practice each Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Our performances begin around the middle of April."
-John Douglas

"We are singing and rejoicing, calling people to rejoice this night when the powers of darkness are overcome by the light of Christ."
-Rev. Steve Thomason

"Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for the sake of the song."
-The Eagles

"They handed me a bass and I don't know how to play a bass. But Adams was playing behind us. We were all singing, but we weren't playing. Nothing was plugged in. I was knocking down speakers and running around. The fans got a kick out of it."
-Jon Drummond

"I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman."
-Joss Whedon

"People been saying 'musical,' ... It's not like [in the movie] I'm talking and then start singing; it's a film with musical parts in it. It has brand-new Outkast songs, and it also has music from the Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below album incorporated into it as well. [The film] comes out anywhere between November and January."
-Big Boi

"I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age."
-Minnie Driver

"We all have been singing the blues. We have dedicated full time the last month to the museum and we all have other jobs."
-Carolyn Smith

"We're both singing off the same page. The bottom line is the State Ports Authority doesn't have the money or the capacity to invest in more terminals. Anyone who says otherwise is not dealing with reality."
-Sen. Clementa Pinckney

"John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records."
-Peter Sellars

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."
-Homer

"People always compared Bryan to John Lennon, especially his style of singing."
-John Morand

"We had sort of Spinal Tap moment in Europe . . . when I caught on fire. Vince almost had to stop singing, he was laughing so hard."
-Nikki Sixx

"When they drag me down the aisle the final time I'll be singing "I Did It My Way.""
-Paul H. King