Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Horrocks

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janet Jackson

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Carl Sandburg

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

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Cameron Diaz

It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

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.'

Joni Mitchell

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

had to work every single day of his life.

Robbie Williams

My self-doubts are disappearing day by day... However, my first single was a cover.

Daniel Gomez

He was a singer and they were loud.

Adam Cole

So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.

Alison McGhee

All it takes is a single moment.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

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.

Donald Fagen

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Claude Debussy

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

Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Adam Lambert

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

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Amy Grant

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

Anne Robinson

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Alicia Keys

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

Alice Smith

I came to singing organically.

Dinah Shore

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

Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Cindy Gallop

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.