Quotes About Music

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Usually I perform with dancers.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.