Top 1200 Singing Career Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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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.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

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!'

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.

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.

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

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

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

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

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

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

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

I have a long way to go as far as my acting career is concerned. Lots of milestones are to be achieved and dreams to be fulfilled. I would someday want to do playback singing, too, as I am a very passionate singer.

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

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

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.

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

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

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

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

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

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

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

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

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

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

Choir singing's a wonderful thing for what ails you. There's a lot of meaning in a hymn if you think about it when you're singing it.

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

I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it's been two hours.

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

That was pretty crazy, going from singing in my room to singing in front of 5,000 people.

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

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 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.

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

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

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

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

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

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

The one thing I find about singers in the business is that they often don't get the right education. I hear a lot of them singing and when they get to 30, 40 years old they wont be able to sing because they are not properly trained. A lot of people singing from their throat instead of singing from their diaphragm.

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

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

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