SINGING QUOTES IV

quotations about singing

My favorite thing about singing is the physicality of it. It takes a great deal of strength to sing opera, muscles have to be strong yet fluid. It's a wonderful feeling to pour all your emotions out onto the stage like that.

REBECCA PEDERSEN

"Nationally-honored soprano to sing at BDAC tonight", The Davis Clipper, August 24, 2017


Sing it out as hard as you can
Make 'em hear you from LA to Japan
Don't let 'em bring you down
This is how we do it now
Go and roll them windows down and
Sing, sing, sing, sing
Sing it with your hands in the sky
Light it up like it's the 4th of July
Don't let 'em bring you down
You know what I'm talking 'bout
A little bit louder now

PENTATONIX

"Sing"


She sang late into the night, till her heart was full.

ANAMIKA MISHRA

VoiceMates


Sweetest the strain when in the song
The singer has been lost.

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

The Poet and the Poem


Singing is one preparation for heaven.

JOSEPH GURNEY BEVAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.

SARAH OCKLER

Bittersweet


You got me singing
Even tho' the news is bad
You got me singing
The only song I ever had

LEONARD COHEN

"You Got Me Singing"


The blues is knocking on my door
Just like it did once before
Nothing new, just the same old thing
You got me singing the blues again

FATS DOMINO

"Nothing New"


A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Tags: Clay Aiken


I think we should talk about how the voice is a form of authorship, how singing is a form of authorship. That teenage voice tells us a story as much as the words.

ANN POWERS

"Singing Our Lives: When Pop Stars Are Super-Heroines", NPR, August 4, 2017


If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.

NESS KINGSLEY

The Curse of Cackling Meadows


For the love you bring won't mean a thing
Unless you sing, sing, sing, sing

TRAVIS

"Sing", The Invisible Band


Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

BERNADETTE PETERS

New York Times, September 20, 1985

Tags: Bernadette Peters


Give me trumpets legato,
Put some saxes with 'em,
Strings pizzacatto and some rhythm.
As long as I'm singing,
Then the world's all right and everything's swingin'
Long as I'm singing my song.

WAYNE NEWTON

"As Long As I'm Singing"


And the world is falling
Slowly out of view
While the angels are singing
Singing me home
Yeah the angels are singing
Singing me home
3 o'clock in the morning

BLUE RODEO

"Angels"


A scientific approach to singing misses the big picture. Although we can look at our vocal cords through a laryngoscope and chart the various formants of acoustical sound, we cannot chart the effects of body, mind, and heart on the voice -- and those things are as much a part of the instrument as are the vocal folds themselves. Because our entire person is our instrument, everything about us -- our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological, and spiritual state of being -- affects the physical and acoustical aspects of singing.

W. STEPHEN SMITH

The Naked Voice: A Wholistic Approach to Singing


Such a price
The Gods exact for song;
To become what we sing.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

"The Strayed Reveller to Ulysses"

Tags: Matthew Arnold


Singing is a process of complex, muscles maneuvers and thoughts, requiring the singer to satisfy many technical demands in a sequential, rapid-fire manner. The superior singer accomplishes these astounding and complicated feats, with his vocal muscles, similarly to those feats which a superior gymnast accomplishes, with the muscles of his entire body.

ANTHONY FRISELL

The Baritone Voice: A Personal Guide to Acquiring a Superior Singing Technique


Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear.

ALLY CONDIE

Reached


Singing is a personal thing. Our own body makes all of the sound, which is then tempered by our own experiences and personality. When we get up there we make ourselves very vulnerable. That explains why, perhaps even more than other performers, we get really hurt by criticism and rejection.

BRINDLEY SHERRATT

"Singing? I'm still trying to get the hang of it", The Guardian, June 1, 2017