Top 1200 Voice Singing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.

When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

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.

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.

When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.

I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

I wasn't even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

I didn't even know what 'The Voice' was, but my mom said, 'I signed you up for this singing show,' and I was like, 'All right, I guess.'

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

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

My singing voice has sort of an Ethel Merman-type quality: just, like, loud and strong and full.

I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.

I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

All my voice training comes from choir and small ensemble singing.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.

I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.

I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit of a voice.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

I wish I had a great singing voice.

You want to have a feeling when you sing that you just love singing; you love the feeling of singing, and you love this feeling of this voice coming out of your body into this world. It's about really getting that most beautiful, pure, centered tone, thinking about the story of each song and the lyrics, and connecting your own life to that story.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.