Tom Jones Quotes

I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone's in my hand, I'm loving it. When the guitar's in my hand, I'm a little nervous, but I'm still loving it.

I've always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.

If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don't mind touring.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.

I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.

I've been singing most of my life. There's nothing better I could wish to be doing.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

I think live stuff is certainly stuff I enjoy doing. I do like performing for people and bringing it to people.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

I feel like maybe I get more nervous when I'm singing. One, it's live. Two, there's a lot of people watching. And three, you have to make sure you get the right notes and everything.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.