“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.” ThinkingWorldWantEnoughShowsWould BeTurnsMillionsCoupleSingingBeyonce Author:Billie Piper
“I would love to do a musical. When I did Fame L.A. for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.” YearsMeanShowsHeavenWaitingActingFameSingingDancingMusicalCriedGoing To WorkSinging Dancing Author:Roselyn Sanchez
“I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.” KnowsReasonShowsGuySongSingingDrawsCateringR Kelly Author:R. Kelly
“I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.” ShowsPlansLessonsSingingShowing Off Author:Geri Halliwell
“I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.” ShowsMotherTelevisionSingingDancingLucyCarolsSinging And DancingTelevision Watching Author:Debra Messing
“A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.” LongDoeCountryHelpingShowsSongNamesDealsSingingHatredPrejudiceDeedsFlyingThese DaysCursePatriotismBigotryFlagsPerpetualBoastConceitGrievanceNarrow MindednessSinging Songs Book:Character Source: Character
“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."” PeopleKnowsWantSaidShowsSpeakTypeSingingRapHookSpeak English Author:Pitbull
“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
“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.” WantChildrenEndsShowsBigsSongGirlActorsMemoriesStageDadTerribleDirectorsSingingWestMy DadFolksShow MeAuditionsDonkeyQueuesChild ActorsFolk SongsWest End Author:Emilia Clarke
“So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” GivingShowsTurnsStrongCitiesAliveProudSingingShow MeCunningCoarseSneer Author:Carl Sandburg
“When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.” FirstsLooksShowsStrongGrowing UpGrowingSingingMusicalTheatreI RealizedSuitsPerformingMusical Theatre Author:Jason Mraz
“The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!” PeopleFirstsShowsLife IsRecordsSingingShock Author:Nigel Godrich
“I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.” YearsDifferentShowsSongComedySingingMusicalVarietyTunesBroadwayBroadway ShowsComedy ShowsShow Tunes Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.” PeopleYearsEndsShowsNightSongGenerationsDadSingingShouldersSpectrum Author:Andy Biersack
“Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.” ShowsSongHumanityMy OwnHabitSingingProvidingClosingUkulele Author:John Hodgman
“Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.” EnoughShowsHumorMightFunnyAmericaTalentSingingWorried Author:Natasha Leggero
“White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.” PeopleShowsTogetherSongWhiteSingingHarmony Author:Ben Folds
“My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.” PeopleWellsDoneEnoughShowsSchoolFunVoiceCan DoActingSingingFind MeElementary School Author:Clayton Snyder
“I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentCountryShowsFunLove IsFansStageSingingWho You ArePassionateStudiosHearingAround The WorldPerformingAdoreEvery SecondDifferent CountriesWay I Love You Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.” YearsShowsKidsSchoolFoundTalentSingingHigh SchoolFemaleLuckBlowSingersClassicBlastTalent ShowCelineFemale Singers Author:Paolo Nutini
“I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.” WorldWayShowsRealityFilmUsedCertainSeeingFansTvsSingingDancingIntentionMy WayTv ShowsReality Tv Author:Julianne Hough
“I love the fans and they are the reason for my professional existence. When I'm out there doing a show and I see the fans dancing and singing, that's what I love the most. It's just the greatest feeling in the world.” WorldReasonShowsFeelingsExistenceFansSingingDancing Author:Michael Jackson
“I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.” PeopleShowsNextMillionsGoneFourOne DaySingingGymnasiumsCasper Author:Leroy van Dyke
“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?” KnowsMenWorldTryingLittlesRealShowsRememberFilmGuyBlackWhiteSingingUnderstoodFrankTendernessBlack And WhiteShow MeReal Men Author:Chrissie Hynde
“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.” FirstsTwoShowsMonthsSingingRedDancingKneesBeastBootsHeadacheTwo MonthsTightsSinging And DancingGaston Author:Hugh Jackman
“Ever since I was little I would always be singing and dancing. I learned dance moves from Michael Jackson and *Nsync. My brothers, Rydel, and I would always put on shows for family members in our basement and we charged everyone $1 to get in.” LittlesShowsMovingBrotherMembersSingingDancingMy BrotherFamily MembersBasementsSinging And DancingDance MovesNsync Author:Riker Lynch
“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.” WorldI CanShowsWorstBuildingSingingWindowOne TimeBricksShow BusinessHazardsBricklayers Author:Pat Cooper
“It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.” PeopleKnowsShowsKidsYoungBitsMiddleFameSingingShockingSpain Author:Michael Buble
“My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.” YearsFirstsShowsBigsJobsSingingRadioWalkersTennessee Author:Dolly Parton
“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
“Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.” YearsShowsPastSingingChinaJapanAustraliaBonus70s Show Author:Katherine Jenkins
“Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.” PlayShowsMotherDemandSingingConcernedHorribleNoiseBumpsBacking UpShow Biz Author:Colin Greenwood
“I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.” KnowsHardShowsHappensChallengesWeekSingingEightBroadwaySpontaneityChoreography Author:Ariana Grande
“It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.” ShowsKidsAbleSongHoursRoomsWrittenSingingAirplaneFar AwaySurrealFourteenVery Cool Author:Adam Young
“Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.” PeopleWayWholeStoriesShowsSongRoomsAudienceSingingConceptsBest WayConnectingBeing Authentic Author:Alan Cumming
“I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.” WayNeedsStillsIdeasShowsOne ThingBandSingingPopsVolumeBullshitMaximumPop MusicSentimentality Author:Johnny Marr
“I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.” I CanShowsInterestingAudienceStageMusicianSingingDancingArrangements Author:Rokia Traore
“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.” PeopleMindLittlesHelpingShowsBitsTalentFrontsLittle BitSinging Author:Bronson Arroyo
“I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.” IfsKnowsKindDifferentShowsActionSocialGroupsSingingDollarsCharityFolksAll KindsCheerTroopsTicketsHeroinesReceptionTitheSocial Action Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.” ThinkingFeelsImportantShowsWould BeModernFiguresPaintingSingingVersionsRenaissanceKim Author:Kanye West
“I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I'm no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.” PeopleThinkingShowsRealityAbleMy OwnSingingExcitingOriginalsTransitionEvery SecondReality ShowsOriginal Music Author:Melanie Martinez
“On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.” ThinkingShowsVoiceMy OwnTypeMusic IsSingingOriginalsReally CoolOriginal Music Author:Melanie Martinez
“When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.” ShowsSongIndividualPiecesKingsMountainSingingSettingSettingsNarrativeConcertsTheatricalPivotal Author:Kate Bush
“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.” IfsKindStoriesShowsBigsWould BeSidesDealsSingingRainMy FamilyTownsWestCaughtShow BusinessBig DealWest SideVcrWest Side StorySinging In The Rain Author:Marisa Tomei
“I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.” IfsMenWayI CanShowsSingingMy FamilyInstrumentsHappy ManPlaying Instruments Author:Bruno Mars
“For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.” ShowsPerfectPossibilitySingingExcitementThrill Author:Alicia Keys
“I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.” KnowsWaySometimesShowsAudienceLaughingJourneyHonestSingingInstrumentsMy WaySongwritersMy JourneyVirtuoso Author:Jason Mraz
“I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.” ShowsProblemVoiceColdSingingRadioParisOver ItThroatFifteenCurtainsHere And ThereSixteenSore Throat Author:Adele
“Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterShowsNightFunSingingJust BeingSaturdayBeing DifferentSaturday NightDifferent CharactersSaturday Night Live Author:Jill Scott
“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.” ThinkingKnowsMenImportantShowsBodyJoyMotivationSufferingOpinionSingingPassionateStimulus Author:Andrea Bocelli