Gail Carson Levine Quotes

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the crib and sing in the crib all night long. My crib would roll across the floor in the middle of the night. Finally, my father nailed its legs to the floor.

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio - never had a vocal lesson in my life.

I can't remember ever not singing.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table...

My mom was a painter and loves to sing behind closed doors.

I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still try to write lyrics.

It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

I came out of the womb singing, dancing, and telling awkward jokes.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

People who want to be singers can be nurtured and taught, and they can make great strides. But, the truth is, if you are completely tone deaf, it is never going to happen for you. It's just a reality of life. It's like me thinking I can be an Olympic swimmer. It ain't gonna happen!

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.