Quotes About Performance

It's always been my goal to have backing singers.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

Sleep is the apple a day, really, for singers.

So many great singers we know have come from the church.

I am fascinated with singers. I find them cooler than actors.

It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those four background singers - not because I can't sing but because I need to relay the message of what the song is emotionally, or the feeling, period.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions.

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.

We call out-of-tune singers as 'Aurangazeb singers.' I wouldn't say I'm as bad as an 'Aurangazeb singer,' but I'm definitely no singer.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

You know, I've just discovered the Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone performance of Evita' at the Tonys. It's honestly one of the most extraordinary pieces of singing in the world.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or they're dancing because they can't move anymore, moving is not enough to express - it's this beautiful thing.

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.