Like most kids, I grew up singing ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. – Steve Earle
I’ve been writing songs since I was, like, five and I’ve been singing since, like, I can’t remember. – Taylor Momsen
I have simply said that there’s just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It’s not who I am. I don’t want to be that person. – Steve Perry
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. – Simon Cowell
The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, ‘The Papercut Chronicles,’ we had no idea what the term ‘producer’ meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that – singing in a room and vibing off each other. – Travie McCoy
For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God. – Tullian Tchividjian
It’s so crazy to see people singing along to songs that aren’t even released yet. I’m like, ‘How do you even know the lyrics? Have you been watching YouTube?’ – Seinabo Sey
When I write songs for myself it’s really personal and I just can’t have someone else singing it. – Sky Ferreira
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there’s this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs. – Yuna
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me. – Sebastian Bach
I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there’s not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other. – Shawn Colvin
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke. – Spike Milligan
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn’t see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn’t hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. – Sam Phillips
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it’s as if I’m singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment. – Yanni
Singing and being truthful to a song… I’ve developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that’s all I’ve been doing for the last 25 years. – Taylor Dane
I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. – Tony Bennett
When you’re doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there’s a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! – Tom Wopat