Quotes About Dedication

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

There are so many great singers out there.

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

My aspirations were never anything other than I really, really admired certain singers over the years, and I just wanted to do the best I could. And that has been kind of like the way I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a career, have some success, and yet continue to learn my craft.

When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.

My practice is to take a sheet, write the song number in the left side, name of the production, and time of recording. Only when I have to fill the name of the singer do we look out to see who is free. When the singers we want aren't there, I end up singing it! That's how I became a singer.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot of time.

People ask me for advice. And the best advice I can give aspiring singers is to know in your heart this is your calling and there's nothing else you'd rather do.

One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don't hone your craft.

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

There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I going to have to do this?' But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can't buy you that.