Professional Singer Quotes

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

It's very challenging to be a playback singer in Bollywood.

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

I have known Chithra long before I became a composer. Her growth has amazed me; she had not seemed extraordinary when I saw her singing at shows or recording tracks, for singers like S. Janaki and P. Susheela, at Tharangini Studio in Thiruvananthapuram.

I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.

But I'd like to be taken seriously as a singer.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.