“I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.” PassionSleepSingingBreatheMy Passion Author:Diana DeGarmo
“We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.” PeopleAbleNightSongStageFrontsSingingGratefulFortunateEvery Night Author:Al Barr
“What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing the songs. I just don't want to promote myself as an artist if you like. I've been writing loads and loads of songs and I want to feed them out and produce artists. But I have to do that from a center. There has to be a structure. It has to be from a company that has an image, that has a name.” PeopleWritingMeanArtistSongSinging Author:Nick Heyward
“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.” DifferentShowsBigsNamesStarsBreakComedyGroupsBandLateSingingSandDifferent Things Author:Hal Blaine
“I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.” ChildrenHomeDreamWantedJobsFatherParentSingingMy FriendsCompetitionTeenagerShyAmbitiousTraveledTypicalContestsDisco Author:Laura Pausini
“I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.” WritingYearsHas BeensTwoDreamSongParentMy OwnRecordsCoupleSingingMy FriendsRadioAlbumsLocalsTwo YearsStationsFifteenI Had A DreamRadio StationsTwo Year Olds Author:Lene Marlin
“I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian Sámis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.” ThinkingWayChildrenWantedChristianSongCoursesParentTeachSingingDevilMusicalDisappearTraditionalPriestsHymnsMusical Education Author:Mari Boine
“To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.” FormJoyLeftPrayerSingingGreat Joy Author:Maureen McGovern
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongFoundEasyMy OwnWrittenHeardSingingFolksRadioMelodyJimmyIntegratingWriting Songs Author:Mickey Newbury
“When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.” GivingWellsEndsPlaySingingLoving YouHastyJennyGive It Your All Author:Paolo Nutini
“Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.” FirstsWellsMadePlaySawsMusic IsSingingFirst TimeImportanceInspiredI RealizedSpotsSpontaneousHornsImprovisationSoulfulNewman Author:Roy Hargrove
“You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives the illusion that you singing in your sleep and number one places around the country, you have to have your eyes open. You can close your eyes for a certain gesture or whatever but your eyes are the mirrors of your soul.” NeedsGivingSoulCountryEyeArtistCertainSleepNumbersSingingIllusionMirrorsYour SoulGestures Author:Maxine Powell
“I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.” TwoPlayHomeWould BeMomBandSingingInstrumentsMusicalMy MomPianoComing HomeMy SisterNot AfraidGeekSaxophoneOlder SisterUncoolClarinetOther Sister Author:Miles Teller
“The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.” PeopleFeelsYearsIdeasGuyPlayerSingingGuitarStartingWelcomeDepressingStoolsBlues MusicPreconceived Ideas Author:B. B. King
“My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.” SimpleSingingGodly Author:Michael Jackson
“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.” ArtPlaySchoolSongTeachingMonthsSixSingingFolksSix MonthsBeltsArt SchoolNovicesUkuleleFolk SongsBaritones Author:Joni Mitchell
“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsWellsKindEndsPainUsedWalksSawsEmotionalGrewGrew UpSingingBreathsOriginalsBarsAll KindsTacticsEmotional PainDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathOutrun Author:Jewel
“I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.” ThinkingI CanSongSingingSingers Author:David Bowie
“Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.” I CanSongMusic IsSingingRaisedBonesConcertsGospel MusicGospel Songs Author:Johnny Cash
“When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.” NeedsTalkingSingingLove Is All You Need Author:John Lennon
“I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.” FeelsTwoWantedNumbersTomorrowSingingStonesRollingRolling StonesJagger Author:Jeff Beck
“I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.” LittlesPassionBitsEnjoyChallengesDealsActingLittle BitSingingSinging And Acting Author:Janet Jackson
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.” IfsYearsMeanI CanCountryPresidentFiveRightsEqualSingingFive YearsEqual Rights Author:Wyclef Jean
“I wouldn't want someone assuming that some negative song has some truth between me and my wife. There was a song that one of my buddies sent me, and it was an awesome song. It was about this woman who had fallen in love with a man that wasn't her husband, and I love everything about the song except for the fact that I personally cannot sing it. It would kill me if someone thought I was singing it about my wife.” IfsMenWantFactsSongWifeTruth IsHusbandSingingNegativeAssumingMy WifeFallenKill MeBuddy Author:Aaron Watson
“Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.” PeopleWayWholeCausesMy OwnLike YouSingingHip HopAlbumsStuckHipsHopsBarriersVersesHookAcoustics Author:SonReal
“That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.” WayMindHumansFacesSingingBest WayHuman MindYour FaceBobHookGrooveMarley Author:Wyclef Jean
“I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce. She's like number 1 right now because I love everything about her. Her fashion, her style, her attitude when it comes to singing. She's perfect.” WantInspirationPerfectNumbersAttitudeRecordsFashionStyleRight NowSingingGagaBeyonce Author:Charice Pempengco
“I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.” FeelingsHandsEnergyEnjoyChurchLordFeetSingingHipsEvokeGreat FeelingsClappingSwaying Author:Jennifer Hudson
“My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.” MotherSongPassionChildhoodSingingFilledTraditional Author:Ofra Haza
“My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.” WritingTryingFirstsLongSongLong TimeSingingGuitarTeenagerGigs Author:Toby Keith
“I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.” SingingMy SisterContests Author:Coco Lee
“They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.” PeopleDoneSoundImagineSinging Author:Coco Lee
“I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.” YearsLongStillsReasonDonePlayFunMissingSingingTwentiesGuitarPlaying GuitarTwenty Somethings Author:Tommy Lee
“At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.” LittlesArtWould BeKidsGirlFeetSingingDancingLittle Kid Author:Aaron Neville
“I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.” SongBabyPleaseSingingVansDukesJoey Author:Ted Nugent
“Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it's my song. The lyrics would be in my style, but the songs would be very jazzy.” PeopleWould BeSongAsksStyleSingingYeahCome UpHoliday Author:Regina Spektor
“I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.” PeopleI CanGuyVoiceInterestBornSingingYes I Can Author:Amy Winehouse
“I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.” FeelsChildrenPersonsDifferentFeltBitsWhitePoorDadFitSingingAreasMy DadAwkwardMumSkinnyHave ConfidenceCaribbean Author:Corinne Bailey Rae
“I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.” Has BeensSinging Author:Gene Watson
“It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.” IfsYearsHas BeensNextHappenedStageSingingPressesFinalsNutsIdolsNew YearConferencesAustralianWhirlwindPress ConferencesNew Years Day Author:Kate DeAraugo
“When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.” IfsWantedParentTeacherSingingMy FriendsNervousSoloSeniorAuditionsFreshman Author:Toby Lightman
“I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.” CountryGrewGrew UpSingingPopsPop Music Author:Tonya Mitchell
“I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.” ThinkingSingingConcentrating Author:Tonya Mitchell
“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.” KnowsShouldMeanHas BeensAgeFivePlayerSingingShould Have Author:Trilok Gurtu
“I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.” YearsBelieveHas BeensSchoolMotherI BelieveBornRecordsMusicianMusic IsSingingJazzFolksConcertsFestivalsBeing Played Author:Vicki Sue Robinson
“My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. The words would be all garbled, because I didn't know how to talk yet.” KnowsSaidPlayStoriesWould BeAgeAbleParentKnow HowMomSingingMy MomClassicNonsenseTapeSyllables Author:Vienna Teng
“I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.” HeartBigsBreakMy HeartSingingBreaking My Heart Author:Shane Filan
“Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.” IfsSongAbilitySingingEarsRhythmBoresBathroomVariationBeginnersSpecialtyAria Author:Jack Gould
“I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time.” WritingFirstsWholeTogetherSingingFirst TimeWhole LifeWriting PoetryEarly 20s Author:Lisa Marie Presley