Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I don't really enjoy singing lead.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

I don't like to sing loud.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

I have always loved singing.

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

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

I never sing under the shower, I keep it for the stage.

I'm an intense singer, so I look like I need the toilet every time I hit a high-note.

I'm very reserved when I get off stage.

Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.

I'm not that much of a singer.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.

I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

The thing that's great about singing together is it's a great way of bringing people together.