Quotes About Learning

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection.

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I love Singapore because there's a lot we can learn from them!

The area I hope we can learn most from Singapore is in the productivity and efficiency of its public servants.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

I've grown from being around other singers. I've learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own songs and discovering how to tell my own story properly.

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.

Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.

I've evolved with time and learnt from my daughter which designers and singers are in.

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.

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.

One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I've made storylines through dance to complement the music. It's all about enhancing the singing and acting. It's been an amazing learning curve for me.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

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