Tom Jones Quotes

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

I don't like ageing, I don't like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

From 11 to 17, I just toured my butt off with my dad and my sister. We hit the road and I was singing all kinds of different songs and different types of genres. But I knew from an early age what I wanted my sound to be, which was country on bass, and I wanted to be a country artist.

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

I always said that someday I'm going to sing on a record.

I'll always be playing shows. Even when I'm a crazy granny wearing weird old granny clothes and wandering around with dementia, I'll still be playing. Whether anyone else will turn up is another question.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

I was probably four when I knew that I wanted to be a singer.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I absolutely hate getting older and it's not because of the way it makes you look. It's because I have this sense of so much still left to do and to see. It's my fear of missing out on the future that really gets to me.

You want to be taken seriously as an artist and not just known as 'that girl wrestler who sings.' So you want to go out and stand on your own legs. But at the same time, I don't negate the fact that without everything I've accomplished in wrestling, I wouldn't have been given so many really cool opportunities on the music side.

I think I knew when I was about 2 and a half that I wanted to be a singer.

Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.