Paul Simon Quotes

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

There are so many young singers I meet from Delhi, and I am sure they will attain heights some day. They all are very good, and I am very proud of them.

I'd always sing 'Greatest Love of All' by Whitney Houston. I just want to make clear, though, you know those people on 'Star Search' who are the little 7-year-olds that sound like Christina Aguilera? That wasn't me.

I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

I've been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.

Around eight or nine years back, I participated in 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.' The point of coming on the show was that a person coming from music family can also compete with people from all over India.

I have myself been on the other side of the table being a participant of a singing talent hunt. Hence, it is weird but awesome at the same time to judge a pool of talent that our nation has.

The LUMS Olympiad back 10 years ago gave me a boost to sing songs where I first met with amazing Uzair Jaswal who did not sing cover songs but his original songs.

U2 happens to be one of the world's most celebrated bands of all time, and they have influenced my own music and playlists growing up. In fact, when I was in college, I won a singing competition with a U2 song.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.

Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'

I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact, my first show was 'Shava Shava', which was a singing reality show.

I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.

I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

I remember George Jones singing on television, but not any of the songs he sang. What I remember was my visceral reaction to him, the intensity of my distaste.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.

I have known Chithra long before I became a composer. Her growth has amazed me; she had not seemed extraordinary when I saw her singing at shows or recording tracks, for singers like S. Janaki and P. Susheela, at Tharangini Studio in Thiruvananthapuram.

When I started playing well all I wanted to do was win. Which was a problem. When it became clear I wasn't going to win, I would get fed up. I played poorly on a few Sundays, finishing 50th because I wasn't interested in finishing 30th. But I've learned not to do that.

Something about Mariah Carey's songs really had me wanting to sing high like her.

I'm a good singer, yet I couldn't participate in 'Star Ya Rockstar.'

None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to sing. As soon as I expressed an interest my mom was super supportive of me.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.