Quotes About Performance

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I think there's something nice about singing for a kind of particular purpose.

Be it while recording a song or singing to a live audience, I still get nervous. I feel that is very important. This is what makes me perform well.

I sing for the joy of music... when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song or the whole crowd was singing along with me when I performed on stage.

You can inculcate good acting and dancing abilities, but not singing.

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you could actually hear what Belinda was singing.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.