Lata Mangeshkar Quotes

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

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

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

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

I plan to die at my desk.

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

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.

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

You know that if you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because when I retire from football, I want to sit down and think I did something good - I won this title, and I won this title. People will talk about what you have won, and that is the most important thing in football.

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

Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could be transformed into something.

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.