Darlene Love Quotes

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

I would love to perform with Rihanna. That's one of my biggest dreams.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.