Welcome to our collection of singing quotes, where the beauty and power of music are celebrated through words. Singing is a universal language that transcends barriers, speaking directly to the heart and soul of humanity. Whether it’s the haunting melody of a ballad, the energetic rhythm of a pop anthem, or the soul-stirring resonance of an operatic aria, singing has the remarkable ability to evoke emotions, uplift spirits, and inspire greatness.
Throughout history, singers have captivated audiences with their talent, passion, and ability to convey the depth of human experience through song. From legendary vocalists who have left an indelible mark on the world stage to aspiring artists who are just beginning their journey, the art of singing resonates with people from all walks of life. Whether it’s belting out a tune in the shower, performing on stage in front of thousands, or simply humming along to a favorite song on the radio, singing is a deeply personal and profoundly meaningful form of expression.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that celebrate the magic of singing. These words offer insight, inspiration, and reflection on the joy, challenges, and transformative power of this timeless art form. Whether you’re a seasoned performer, an enthusiastic shower singer, or someone who simply appreciates the beauty of music, we invite you to explore these quotes and perhaps find resonance in the melodies of your own life’s song.
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. Alan Rickman
Every time I step on stage an’ see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it’s a surreal moment for me. A Boogie wit da Hoodie
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying or not all that bright. Henry Rollins
You better mean what you’re singing or you need to get out of this business. That’s where I’m really lucky because they know I mean what I’m singing or I ain’t gonna sing it. Hank Williams Jr.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. Hussein of Jordan
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. Willie Nelson
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Steven Wright
I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios – that was really cool. I kept singing the ‘Looney Tunes’ theme song all day. I’m sure they haven’t heard that one before. Imelda May
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. Georgia O’Keeffe
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke. Spike Milligan
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. Richard Rohr
Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that’s good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now. Kumar Sanu
I am yet to have a child, and if I am blessed with a baby girl, and in future, if a guy tries to impress my daughter by singing my hits, I have no issues with it. Yo Yo Honey Singh
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing. Taylor Swift
You don’t have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don’t have to keep flashing those words all the time. Jimi Hendrix
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don’t find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult. Martin Gore
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me. Larry Wilcox
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. Zoltan Kodaly
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. Walter Savage Landor
When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Terry Pratchett
I had, like, 11 jobs. I’ve been fired 11 times! ‘Cause I’m not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work – I’m singing, tellin’ jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying. Steve Harvey
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise. Charles Spurgeon
It was always difficult for me to listen to my singing voice for the first 20 years or so. I mean, I really enjoyed singing, and I enjoyed doing live shows, but being in a recording studio and having to hear my voice played back to me would really drive me up the wall. John Prine
Right now I’m singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King’s ‘The Stand,’ and I love singing along to that kind of stuff. Amy Poehler
Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it’s a little bit sad, right? Rachel Stevens
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well. Aretha Franklin
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing. Tom Jones
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
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. Justin Bieber
I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I’m singing and writing about these days. It’s all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes. Jody Watley
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. Janis Joplin
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. Johnny Cash
When you’re a front man for a band, there’s nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked. Gloria Estefan
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling
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. Dwayne Johnson
I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches. Dolly Parton
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. Idris Elba
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way. Barbra Streisand
I’m on fire when I’m singing, I’m completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It’s a very special thing. Sinead O’Connor
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. Lou Rawls
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. Jimmy Webb
I’ve never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Kelly Clarkson
The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me ‘Small Change,’ and I just couldn’t get over that this was a white guy singing. Hozier
In opera, there is always too much singing. Claude Debussy
I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine. Taylor Swift
Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance! Shweta Basu Prasad
Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I’m doing this. Rose
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
There’s not enough money in the world to get me singing ‘Because We Want To’ again. I wouldn’t do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down. Billie Piper
Who’s judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest! Chris Rock
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. Lana Del Rey
Listen to the lyrics – we’re singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife! Buddy Guy
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. Brie Larson
My uncle introduced me to R&B, like Dru Hill, 112 and all those dudes. Eventually, he put me on Omarion’s first album, and that was the first album that made me want to start singing. Bryson Tiller
I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five. Mick Jagger
I love songwriting. It’s second to my love for singing in how I express myself. Michael Bolton
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I’m used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives! Mahalia Jackson
My heart is like a singing bird. Christina Rossetti
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that’s how everything happened. Lindsay Lohan
Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth. Edith Piaf
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing. Rod Stewart
My favorite song? ‘Amazing Grace.’ Anybody singing it. But the best it’ll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It’ll bring tears to your eyes. Jimmy Dean
The only thing better than singing is more singing. Ella Fitzgerald
I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds – singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice. Michelle Visage
Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It’s freedom. Andrea Bocelli
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, ‘Oh, baby,’ if there’s a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool. Etta James
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life. Mariah Carey
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. Burl Ives
I don’t think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing. Jean Gabin
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody. Elvis Presley
First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can’t help it. Tom Jones
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. Alexis de Tocqueville
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston
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. Stevie Nicks
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. Taylor Swift
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I’ve maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I’m proudest of. And I’m still playing on people’s records and singing on people’s records. Vince Gill
That’s the best way to feed the human mind. That’s how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. Wyclef Jean
You can’t explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience – it’s like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers. Rick Astley
Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ and I thought, ‘We’re all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.’ But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like ‘We Shall Overcome.’ Clarence Clemons
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. Diane Paulus
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me. Kailash Kher
I don’t know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion. Eric Whitacre
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Reba McEntire
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. Cab Calloway
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan
When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul. Dolores O’Riordan
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me. Emmy Rossum
My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too. Mac DeMarco
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. Avril Lavigne
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I’m always myself – jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up. Cara Delevingne
My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop of four chords, or something, or guitar, and then I just start singing. Tate McRae
People always want to talk about who I was, but I’ve always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. Nicki Minaj
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others. Eddie Izzard
When the Beatles wrote ‘Paperback Writer,’ it couldn’t have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it’s not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff. Jon Batiste
That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic. Monty Don
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Raoul Vaneigem
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor. Brian Eno
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we’re singing about mortality, getting older. It’s an interesting time. Sting
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer! Dave Grohl
