Mel Torme Quotes

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

I'm a big singer. I really love it.

There's no business like show business.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.