Singing Quotes

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.

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.

When I'm there, I'm not here. I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

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

And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those gold and silver discs given to singers. I wish I could take all of them to the goldsmith and draw the metal out.

Lata is the goddess of singing; she fully knows about my admiration for her. I think what is more frequently criticised is not my attitude to colleagues but my attitude to singing for films.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

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.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singing or speaking and using machines.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

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.