Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katy Perry

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

Katy Perry

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

Lena Horne

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

Lena Horne

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

LaToya London

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Taylor Swift

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Tony Bennett

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

Tony Bennett

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

Rosa Luxemburg

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Stephen Sondheim

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

T. S. Eliot

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

Tammin Sursok

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

Rumi

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

Toby Keith

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

Taryn Manning

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

Stephen Malkmus

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

Stephen Malkmus

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Thomas Beecham

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

Rita Wilson

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

Renee Fleming

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Trey Songz

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Rosemary Clooney

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Rufus Wainwright

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

Roberto Duran

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa

Sarah Jessica Parker

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Rod Stewart

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

Rod Stewart

I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Robert Wyatt

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Plant

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.