Quotes About Performing Singing

#1. All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

Ariana Grande

#2. I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Ronnie Spector

#3. Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

Ryan Seacrest

#4. I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

Keke Palmer

#5. I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'

Lucy Hale

#6. I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.

Vanessa Hudgens

#7. The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

Zola Jesus

#8. I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.

James Corden

#9. I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

Tony Bennett

#10. But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Ruben Studdard

#11. I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

Ne-Yo

#12. I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Lucy Hale

#13. It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Patti Smith

#14. Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Janet Jackson

#15. I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

Rob Delaney

#16. There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

David Friedman

#17. Everyone's got crazy fans! But honestly, the crazy fans are where it's at, because they know all the lyrics to the songs that you're singing, and they're dancing and having a great time. You can really enjoy performing for them, even more than you can enjoy performing for someone that's not crazy.

Ross Lynch

#18. I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

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#19. If you are a musician,
sing to one as if you were singing to a million.
If you are a dancer,
dance to one as if you were dancing to a million.
If you are a performer,
perform to one as if you were performing to a million.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Vince Vaughn

#21. I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

Antony Hegarty

#22. I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#23. You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Rick Danko

#24. I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

Lea Salonga

#25. From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

Heather Dubrow

#26. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

Jason Mraz

#27. I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

Caitlin Hale

#28. I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Bruno Mars

#29. It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

Jewel

#30. Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

Agnetha Faltskog

#31. 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

#32. Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing.

Linda Ronstadt

#33. I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

Daya

#34. My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

Irene Cara

#35. I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

Henry Rollins

#36. Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

Janel Parrish

#37. Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

Naturi Naughton

#38. When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

Kim Tae-yeon

#39. It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Charlotte Church