Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'

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

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

I got into singing when I was 6.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

I knew that I wanted to be a singer when I was 10 years old.

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

I always said that someday I'm going to sing on a record.

I was probably four when I knew that I wanted to be a singer.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

I've always wanted to be a singer.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.