Miriam Makeba Quotes

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I can't imagine life without singing.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn't feel like a chore. It's an expression.

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

I have sung every song with the same dedication like I sang my first number.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

I will be singing till my last breath.

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.