Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

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.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Charlotte Church

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Edmund Spenser

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Brian McKnight

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

Brandon Marshall

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

Jane Horrocks

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

Jane Hirshfield

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jamie Foxx

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Juvenal

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Celia Cruz

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Celia Cruz

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Cecilia Bartoli

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Bing Crosby

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

Birdy

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

Bette Midler

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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.

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

Bob Seger

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

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.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Ben Barnes

I love music, and I love singing.

Bridgit Mendler

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

Brie Larson

I really love both acting and singing equally.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Where's the need of singing now?