Cressida Bonas Quotes

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I've always loved to sing.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Richard Julian was the one who told me to check out Cartola. Telling someone to check out Cartola is like telling someone to check out Tony Bennett, you know.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.