Quotes About Performance

When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

In fact, it was my singing that helped me place so high in the Miss America contest. If it just depended on beauty and figure, I wouldn't have done so well.

I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.

Even though I'm still doing the singing entrances, with promos and backstages, I was being me as a performer.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

I really love singing.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

To me, singing and acting have always gone hand and hand.