I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing.… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
I sing for the joy of music... when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
I didn't necessarily hit rock bottom, but I was working at Sprinkles Cupcakes and trying to make money, not wanting to tell… — Katie Stevens Copy Share Image
My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in… — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money… — Ice T Copy Share Image
When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been… — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I… — Rosemary Clooney Copy Share Image
But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in… — Ruben Studdard Copy Share Image
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the… — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided… — Goapele Copy Share Image
In the early days, some producers and directors saw me in the musical 'Evita' and cast me in their movies. They heard… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing… — Coco Jones Copy Share Image
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona -… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
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