Quotes About Career

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.

'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 would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz. But I never knew that it could really be a career. I didn't know any jazz singers. I never saw live jazz. I only heard these records.

Reality shows are the perfect platform to boost one's career and the only way new singers can get work.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

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

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.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.