Quotes About Singing

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

I don't want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

'The Voice' is not just a singing competition. It really comes down to how you come off as a person and how you connect with America with your story, and being relatable to people.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown. I was 13 years old. After that, I just decided that I had to pick one thing, acting or singing, and concentrate on that.