“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.” MomentsKidsFiveFourListeningGrewGrew UpSingingPianoConceptionListening To Music Author:K. D. Lang
“There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.” LittlesKidsSongWalksSingingTrainThemeLittle Kid Author:Andy Milonakis
“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.” PeopleBelieveLittlesMadeStillsHappensKidsSongI BelieveFrontsSingingOrdinaryThings HappenGradesAll AloneBurstingOrdinary Things Author:Lynda Barry
“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.” KnowsFirstsLittlesMadeImportantKidsSongBandSingingLittle KidFavorite Bands Author:Chris Cornell
“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.” MenWantInspirationalYearsHomeKidsSchoolFeltEmotionSingingVery GoodExperimentsCyclesMatureComing HomeFrankTeenageTouchstonesGood Years Author:Iggy Pop
“I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.” KidsUsedMomSingingMy MomNoiseFrustrated Author:Tove Styrke
“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.” IfsFirstsKidsYoungSongHeardBrotherSingingFirst TimeBrothers And SistersYoung Brother Author:Adam Levine
“I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.” IfsLittlesKidsSawsStreetsWalkingSingingIndian Author:Sanjaya Malakar
“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.” LittlesDoneShowsKidsWantedLastsLeftComedyCollegeMonthsSixSingingEnglandUniversityI RealizedQuittingComedianOperaSix MonthsLittle KidI Quit Author:Jim Jefferies
“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.” WayKidsAgeThreeAttentionFourSingingMy Way Author:Kiki Dee
“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.” ArtStillsKidsCultureCreationPaintingHigherSingingArt IsDancingEverydayPopulationDrawingArtisticIndianDominantPercentagesIndian CultureDominant Culture Author:Sherman Alexie
“when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'” IfsLittlesKidsSongBlackWonderSingingDied Author:Sean Lock
“Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.” WantKidsBoysFansSingingBackstreetBackstreet Boys Author:Donnie Wahlberg