Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Legend

For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Elvis Presley

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

Elvis Presley

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.

Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Julie Andrews

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Judith Hill

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.

Judy Carter

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

Josh Turner

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Kate Smith

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

Leona Lewis

Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.

Leonard Cohen

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Leighton Meester

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Lata Mangeshkar

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Luke Bryan

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Loretta Lynn

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Loren Eiseley

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Justin Bieber

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

K. D. Lang

I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.

K. D. Lang

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Joyce Kilmer

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

Patrick Stump

Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!

Lonnie Donegan

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Max Weinberg

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

Kirsten Dunst

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Kimberly Caldwell

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

Kevin Drew

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.