No, I’ve been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. – Zooey Deschanel
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. – Tracy Chapman
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. – Victoria de los Angeles
When I’m singing, I’m another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want. – Selena
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out. – Tommy Shaw
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. – Sean Durkin
There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten. – Sonu Nigam
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I’m singing directly from the heart. – Sammy Hagar
A cantor, when he starts singing, it’s like rain – once it starts, it’s hard to stop. – Sholom Aleichem
I didn’t like to be restricted, because when you’re in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own. – Tom Jones
To be selling out shows and these kids who don’t speak English singing along every word? It’s wild. – Tory Lanez
I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine. – Taylor Swift
I don’t feel like singing should be taken lightly. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but it’s coming along. – Wes Borland
I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, ‘Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.’ But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old. – Yuna