Top 1200 Choir Singing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

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

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

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.

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

I love singing gospel. It's fulfilling but in a different way than singing pop music.

When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tennis, I learn a lot for my singing: how the players are focused, how they use their technique, and, in the case of Roger Federer, how effortless it is and how beautiful it is to watch - like bel canto, in a way. That's how singing should be.

Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.

With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

I was in choir [at school].

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

I was the star of the choir.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

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.