Singing Profession Quotes

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I don't have dairy because I'm a singer and, quite frankly, I don't want to mess around with my vocal chords and how those behave, and dairy is an allergen for me.

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I'll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.

I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.

I used to sing as a living while I was at university.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

I am happy being a playback singer and performer.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.

I believe no other singer has to remember so many different lyrics like I do.

I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.