Mohit Chauhan Quotes

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

Music means a great deal to me.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people do; I also know that a lot of other people act like I do. And better than I do. But what informs the singing is the acting. They're not separate from each other.

My version of 'Fast Car' is in the same key as the original. To me that is where all the emotion lies.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.