Gretchen Parlato Quotes

I've always been singing. Ever since I can remember, I've been singing.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

It seems like I've always been singing, at least since I was 5.

I started off singing when I was little. My parents have said I was singing at 3 years old. So I think it was just something I probably came into this world wanting to do and knowing I was going to do.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

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

I truly wish I could sing.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

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

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I sang in choir as a kid.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.

I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.

I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel a lot more personal criticism when somebody tells you that you don't have a good voice.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.

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