Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Kathleen Battle

I can't imagine life without singing.

Glen Hansard

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

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.

Paul Saffo

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

Frank Ocean

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Christina Aguilera

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

Chris Robinson

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Harry Dean Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

John Milton

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

Nina Simone

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Nina Arianda

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.