Quotes About Art

A film is made for actors and actresses, not for singers.

When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.

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

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

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

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

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.

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

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I've been passionate about singing for as long as I can recall.

I got into singing when I was 6.

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing.

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

I really love singing.

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I have always loved singing.

With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.

Singing is my first love.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.