Mel Torme Quotes

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

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 started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

I've been singing, literally, since I was born.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

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

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

I did choir in high school, but I didn't sing professionally anywhere ever.