Singing Career Quotes

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

Playback singing has always been my dream.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

Frank Sinatra discovered me at a nightclub called P.J.'s in Hollywood. It was 1962. He used to come in there a lot with all his big star friends. I was so nervous to see him. I've only had one idol in my life, and that was Frank Sinatra.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

You better believe I'm not a pop star.

I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.

I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.'