I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
Layne Staley

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
Stevie Nicks

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt

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.
Chris Brown

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
Willie Nelson

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
Paul Simon

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Mariah Carey

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Mariah Carey

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.
John Mayer

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
John Mayer

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
Justin Timberlake

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.
Joni Mitchell

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
Gerard Butler

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
Gerard Butler

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
Gerard Butler