Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

Gene Watson

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Garth Hudson

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

Frank Sinatra

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Meg White

I'm just not used to singing that much.

Florence Welch

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Marcos Baghdatis

I told them to keep it down, don't say anything rude. Today (Friday), they were much better. They were singing stuff about me. It's better I think.

Jarvis Cocker

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Jane Lynch

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Muriel Spark

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Kathy Mattea

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

J. K. Rowling

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

Hugh Jackman

Singing is incredibly physical.

Linda Ronstadt

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

Jackie Evancho

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Pat Cooper

I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.

Little Richard

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Leontyne Price

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Marianne Faithfull

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Marianne Faithfull

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Miriam Makeba

I will probably die singing.

Niall Horan

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

Kelly Clarkson

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Margaret Cho

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

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.

Mario Vazquez

I will always be singing.

Marshall McLuhan

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Maria Callas

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.