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Singing Quotes

Do you nurse the desire to be the next Frank Sinatra or Etta James? Singing is a passion for many and even the most “tone-deaf” self-crooners would swear by that. With a slew of ambitious crooners making their way behind the microphone and even fetching a couple of Grammy for their outstanding contribution in singing, it’s no surprise to see most music aficionados honing their tones for their ‘big break’. If you are a big music freak and aspire to sing like Freddie Mercury or the “King Of Pop” Michael Jackson, then these famous vocal music quotations and sayings would serve as a great booster for you.

Selena

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Selena
Amanda Seyfried

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Music Soul
Amanda Seyfried

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

Mirror
Lisa Marie Presley
Cole Sprouse

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

Greatness
Cole Sprouse
Jennifer Lopez

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Jennifer Lopez

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

Music Soul
Amanda Seyfried

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

Good Work
Florence Pugh
Gerard Butler

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

Gerard Butler

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.

Jessie Buckley
Sammy Hagar

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

Heart
Sammy Hagar
Taylor Swift

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

People
Taylor Swift
Bella Thorne

I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Love
Bella Thorne

Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

Good God
Blake Shelton
Ethan Hawke

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

Ethan Hawke
Nora Fatehi

As 'Dilbar' has become a huge hit internationally, including Middle East, we have taken the song and re-composed it, written Arabic and Moroccan lyrics, and we recorded, with me singing with Fnaire.

Nora Fatehi
Lana Del Rey

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Dreams
Lana Del Rey
Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Acting
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Liza Minnelli

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

Liza Minnelli
Amanda Seyfried

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

Work
Amanda Seyfried
Luke Evans

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

School Jobs
Luke Evans

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

Things
Gerard Butler
Heath Ledger

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

Heath Ledger
Channing Tatum

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

Love
Channing Tatum

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Johnny Cash

My practice is to take a sheet, write the song number in the left side, name of the production, and time of recording. Only when I have to fill the name of the singer do we look out to see who is free. When the singers we want aren't there, I end up singing it! That's how I became a singer.

Time
Ilaiyaraaja

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

Art Energy
Amanda Seyfried
Sammy Hagar

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

Sammy Hagar

I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.

Jonathan Groff

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

Good Character
Charlie Hunnam
Eric Clapton

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Eric Clapton
Gerard Butler

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

Gerard Butler
Tom Holland

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

Tom Holland

I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Energy
Liza Minnelli
Garrett Hedlund

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

Night Walking
Garrett Hedlund
Elvis Presley

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

People Style
Elvis Presley
Anne Hathaway

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

Good Technology
Anne Hathaway
Liza Minnelli

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

People
Liza Minnelli
Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janis Joplin
R. Kelly

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

Style Learning
R. Kelly
Tory Lanez

Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.

Tory Lanez
Zooey Deschanel

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

Christmas Love
Zooey Deschanel
Mick Jagger

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Fulfillment
Mick Jagger
Robert Burns

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Country
Robert Burns
Ariana Grande

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

Ariana Grande
Liza Minnelli

It's like being an athlete; you get into a certain shape where you really have the right wind, because it's all to do with breath. Because singing and dancing at the same time is not easy!

Time
Liza Minnelli
Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Nick Jonas
Matt Bomer

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.

People Community
Matt Bomer
Steven Wright

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Birthday
Steven Wright
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.

Jamie Foxx

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

Beauty Experience
Mandy Moore
Jimmy Butler

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they deserve it.

People
Jimmy Butler

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Good Dancing Action
Amitabh Bachchan

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Radio
Johnny Cash
Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Amy Winehouse
Idris Elba

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

Love
Idris Elba

There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing.

Love
Noah Cyrus
Lisa Marie Presley

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

Writing
Lisa Marie Presley
Willie Nelson

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Willie Nelson
Hilary Duff

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

Greatness
Hilary Duff
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Love
Zora Neale Hurston

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

People Time
Justin Bieber
Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Life Music Grace
Mariah Carey

I think I wanted to sing, but I just couldn't because I was so shy. I didn't really know how to begin that other than like, singing in my room, locking the door, and trying to sing kind of quietly. I knew my mom would want to listen and she would probably bug me about it.

Doja Cat
Celine Dion

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

Alien
Celine Dion
Adele

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

Good
Adele
Nicki Minaj

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

Music People
Nicki Minaj
Doja Cat

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

School
Doja Cat
Celine Dion

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

Love Money Success
Celine Dion

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Life Love
Amanda Seyfried
Alexis de Tocqueville

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Avril Lavigne

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.

School
Avril Lavigne

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

Strength Universe
Janis Joplin
Anna Kendrick

'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.

Time
Anna Kendrick
Mandy Moore

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

Music Time
Mandy Moore

I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you.

Stephen Colbert
Sarah Paulson

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

Sarah Paulson

I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

Lady Gaga
Eric Clapton

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

Guitar
Eric Clapton
Dick Van Dyke

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

Golf Fun
Dick Van Dyke
Brie Larson

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

Life People
Brie Larson
Madonna Ciccone

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

School
Madonna Ciccone
Stevie Nicks

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Life Love People
Stevie Nicks
Post Malone

I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs.

Post Malone
JoJo Siwa

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

Life
JoJo Siwa
Hilary Duff

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

Music
Hilary Duff

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

World
Dwayne Johnson
Hugh Jackman

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

Beauty
Hugh Jackman
Mac Miller

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

Mac Miller
Evan Rachel Wood

Singing makes me so happy and feeds my soul so much that I almost wouldn't want it to get tainted and become this work thing.

Soul Work
Evan Rachel Wood
Millie Bobby Brown

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

Love
Millie Bobby Brown
Justin Bieber

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

Money
Justin Bieber
Chris Pine

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

Guitar
Chris Pine
Evan Rachel Wood

My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.

Love
Evan Rachel Wood
Bruce Willis

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

Time
Bruce Willis
Hilary Duff

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

Sadness Music
Hilary Duff
Jimmy Butler

I still sing, because that's my true calling. This basketball thing is only for, what, I think another year or so. And then I think I'm gonna switch over to my singing career.

Jimmy Butler
Mariah Carey

I started singing when I started talking.

Talking
Mariah Carey

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

Good
Lana Del Rey
Lindsay Lohan

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

Acting
Lindsay Lohan
Billie Eilish

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

Billie Eilish