Lily Allen Quotes

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.

I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didn't like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others' opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I can't say I'm a singer - I'm an actress who can sing.

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

I'm singing. I'm a singer!

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

The voice has been my joker card that sometimes has played like an ace and sometimes a joker. When you sing the way I sing, it's impossible to get people to talk about anything else.

I was an awful singer when I was younger.

I've been blessed to be able to sing and perform.

What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.

I kind of slept through school. I wasn't engaged at all. My exercise books were empty at the end of the year. But I didn't sleep through drama, probably because there wasn't a desk, so my teacher sent me to this audition.

I was the singing boy in school.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

I started singing when I was 8, and then when I was 11, I started writing my first songs.