Quotes About Singing

I love to sing country music and pop music.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

Always sing below your potential.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

I think what you get with the voice is that people can actually sing. The entertainment you get is not only from the contestants but also from the coaches.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Once you sign on the dotted line, in terms of a contract with a musical, it's a huge commitment. When you're younger, that's fine; you can take it on, and I still go out, and I still sing 15-20 songs - and I can do that - a night.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.

I've been singing since I could talk correctly.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.

I've never known a day of my life that I didn't want to sing country music. I really did always know that it was my destiny.

I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. I would cover a lot of Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, that kind of stuff, and it just feels very authentic to me. It's always been there through the years. Even when I was in my band, I still listened to country.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.