“Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.” HeartPersonsStageMy HeartSingingBest ThingsDescribing Author:Thia Megia
“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.” IfsI CanSometimesHelpingVoiceHurtStageNeededBalanceSingingEarsLoudHelp Me Author:Aaron Tveit
“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of” ThinkingFeelsFactsFacesStageSixSingingGuitarComplicatedPedalsStage Presence Author:J. Robbins
“I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.” ThinkingUseBodyHoursHalfStageExerciseSingingYour BodyMusclesLungsBest Exercise Author:Willie Nelson
“I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.” HardStageSingingTeethBrushesAnnie Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.” I CanUseCan DoStageSingingDancingDanceTapeSinging And DancingCartwheels Author:Beyonce Knowles
“Even if my throat bleeds from singing and my body breaks from dancing,I will never give up on stage.Under the circumstances where you cannot enjoy yourself whole-heartedly.Just scream and shout 'till your throat hurts” IfsGivingWholeBodyEnjoyHurtBreakStageCircumstancesGiving UpSingingDancingThroatScreamNever Giving UpEnjoy YourselfI Will Never Give Up Author:Jaejoong
“It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.” DreamStageBandSinging Author:Judith Hill
“Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.” StageSingingMechanismJust BeingCopingCoping Mechanisms Author:Tessanne Chin
“I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.” I CanMinutesStageSingingDancingJumpingSinging Dancing Author:Sunidhi Chauhan
“I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.” YearsBigsAmericaChurchStageSingingWoundsTeenageTeenage YearsSinging In Church Author:Amy Grant
“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
“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.” YearsWellsPersonsPlaySongTermStageBabyArmsSingingStandingGuitarFolksSingersGrandmotherAcousticsMicrophonesAcoustic GuitarOld Song Author:Pete Seeger
“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.” LittlesMadeRememberSongHalfStageDrugSingingGladMade ItHazy Author:Neil Young
“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.” PurposeSongChanceAudienceStageEmotionalSingingStartingPerformingConnectingPerforming On Stage Author:Naturi Naughton
“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.” WritingYearsWellsPlayFourStageBandSingingWho I AmFortunateGet BackFour YearsSoloGigsPulseGrooveGood Bands Author:Arthur Godfrey
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentFeelingsActorsBitsActingCreativeStageSingingCrossesVicesDefinedConfinedVice VersaCerebral Author:Orlando Bloom
“When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.” IfsUseHateSongActingStageApproachSingingI HateDialogueHypocriteHypocriticalEmote Author:Trace Adkins
“My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.” MenBeautifulHouseVoiceCasesStageDadSingingMy DadRealisingNastyTeenagePlaying AroundBeautiful Voice Author:Amy Winehouse
“When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWonderfulStageSingingPerformersTaking Pictures Author:Carrie Underwood
“I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.” WellsIdeasCharacterRealityWould BeFoundHouseFeltStageSingingCamerasObligationLiberatingStimulusTransmit Author:Anne Hathaway
“I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.” ThinkingFeelsKindSeemsSongStageExpressionSingingConnectedManagePerformersStationary Author:Sara Bareilles
“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 would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.” StoriesWould BeRunningSoundGoalHappenedStageSingingDescribing Author:Linda Ronstadt
“I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.” PeopleVoiceMy OwnStageQuietSingingShyOnly Time Author:Emeli Sande
“It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.” LongWantedStageSingingRealising Author:Lou Doillon
“The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.” IfsFirstsSchoolRememberMovingParentSidesTeacherStageNeededSingingTailsBack And ForthChoirSomewhere Out There Author:Carrie Underwood
“Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.” ThinkingGrowsVoiceStageSingingTrainingDancingTrainSingersAestheticSinging And Dancing Author:Jillian Hervey
“I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.” WayFeelsMatterBodyAudienceRocksStageSingingTypical Author:Jenny Hval
“When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.” IfsI CanMatterEnoughSufferingVoiceStageFrontsKingsSingingScaredNakedQueensIntimatePope Author:Andrea Bocelli
“But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'” I CanFeelingsStageBeatsSingingGoing Out Author:Jessie J
“It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.” PeopleKnowsFeelingsSongStageSingingSittingBedroomArenaCraziest Author:Taylor Swift
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.” IfsStageCarCrySeriousSingingPerformancesDishesShowersBasementsFrightStage Fright Author:Michelle Chamuel
“And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.” HeartLongMatterFeelingsRememberFeltStageTerribleDegreesSingingCrapFeverTurner Author:Bryan Adams
“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
“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