Quotes About Singing

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.