Danielle de Niese Quotes

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

I really - I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.