463 Quotes About Singing

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

I came to singing organically.