37 Inspiring Singing Quotes

There’s something profoundly moving about the art of singing. It transcends language, embodies emotion, and unites people across cultures. Whether you're a seasoned vocalist or someone who simply enjoys humming along to your favorite tunes, the power of singing can inspire and uplift your spirit. In this blog post, we've curated a collection of the top 37 inspiring singing quotes, each one promising to ignite your passion for music and celebrate the transformative beauty of song. Get ready to be inspired by words from renowned singers, songwriters, and thinkers who understand the magic of melody and the soul of rhythm.

1. “Dignity, always Dignity!” - Gene Kelly

2. “If I cannot fly, let me sing.” - Stephen Sondheim

3. “Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.” - Ellen DeGeneres

4. “Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.” - Ann Patchett

5. “Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.” - Sharon Shinn

6. “A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.” - Vera Nazarian

7. “He who sings scares away his woes.” - Cervantes

8. “He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis""Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?” - Eoin Colfer

9. “Let's sing our way out of this” - Isabel

10. “Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11. “It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.” - Terry Pratchett

12. “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” - Yip Harburg

13. “And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.” - Donna Jo Napoli

14. “Love, I find, is like singing.” - Zora Neale Hurston

15. “Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

16. “When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.” - Siri Mitchell

17. “If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.” - Lauren Myracle

18. “If you really want to be totally accurate about it, the day that really changed Abby's life wasn't the day she discovered her power.It was the day Ben sang to her in the Telekinesis lab.” - David Pogue

19. “He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of the mystery lay his father. His father’s sanity. Nicholas was sure of this.” - Kevin Wallis

20. “But as I glared up at Hawkins, I realized he was only looking down at me. "You got my attention. Now what are you going to do with it?" He said into the microphone.” - Leah Spiegel

21. “They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out.” - David Stenn

22. “When we sing, I am one of many, and the individual me evaporates. I am one of 23 university choir members. Not a professor. Not an American. Not a 46-year-old in the midst of twentysomethings. Not a woman trying to outpace the aspects of self she has yet to make oeace with. I am simply what we all are--another voice, a set of lungs, some vocal chords and someone who finds joy and comfort in singing. But when the music stops, so does the we. The union dissolves. The silence transforms first person plural into first person singular.” - Laura Kelly

23. “Hello, Lucy. Do you name all your weapons, Grunthor?”“O’ course. It’s tradition.”Rhapsody nodded, understanding coming into her eyes. “That makes perfect sense. Do you find that you fight better with a weapon you’ve named?”“Yep.”Her eyes began to sparkle with excitement. “Why, Grunthor, in a way, you’re a Namer, too!”The giant broke into a pleased grin. “Well, whaddaya know. Should Oi sing a lit’le song?”“No,” said Rhapsody and Achmed in unison.” - Elizabeth Haydon

24. “And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.” - Cassandra Clare

25. “She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when well sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that evening; its expression dramatic: she impressed all, and charmed one.On leaving the instrument, she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat -- semi-stool, semi-cushion: the ladies were round her -- none of them spoke. The Misses Sympson and the Misses Nunnely looked upon her, as quiet poultry might look on an egret, an ibis, or any other strange fowl. What made her sing so? They never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality -- so unlike a school girl? Decidedly not: it was strange, it was unusual. What was strange must be wrong; what was unusual must be improper. Shirley was judged.” - Charlotte Brontë

26. “Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.” - Michael Grant

27. “It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could beat again.” - Ann Patchett

28. “Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes.'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head.'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.” - Diana Gabaldon

29. “Now, I normally do not like it when people sing near me, much less at me. I don't care if they're good, bad, or mediocre. It's all the same. Unless you're signed to a major label with music I can find on iTunes, I don't want to hear your live performance. It's why I can't watch American Idol. I keep worrying the contestants will mess up and be embarrassed, and then I'll be embarrassed for them.” - Lauren Morrill

30. “When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.” - Laura Erickson

31. “They staggered and stumbled, wounded but triumphant, singing the old Welsh folk song “Ar Lan y Môr.” And if there was something odd about returning from battle singing about lilies, rosemary, rocks, and—for some reason he’d never fathomed—eggs, of all things, by the sea, well, then the three of them made it sound pretty good and only he and Beauclaire knew Welsh.” - Patricia Briggs

32. “The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.” - Henry Van Dyke

33. “Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.” - Criss Jami

34. “She sang that night like - I cannot say like an angel, for her songs were all of champagne suppers and strolling in the Burlington Arcade; perhaps, then, like a fallen angel - or yet again like a falling one: she sang like a falling angel might sing with the bounds of heaven fresh burst behind him, and hell still distant and unguessed. And as she did so, I sang with her - not loudly and carelessly like the rest of the crowd, but softly, almost secretly, as if she might hear me the better if I whispered rather than bawled.” - Sarah Waters

35. “Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.” - Gayle Forman

36. “New Song"For You, ManuelitaInside the HorizonSOMEONE WAS SINGING The voice Is not known WHERE DOES IT COME FROM Among the branches No one is to be seen The moon itself was an ear And one hears no sound However a star unnailed Has fallen into the pond THE HORIZON HAS CLOSED UP And there is no exit” - Vicente Huidobro

37. “We sing because we can't speak anymore.” - Kristen Chenoweth