Zitat des Tages über Singen / Singing:
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.
I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.
I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
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.
Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.
How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.
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.
As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!
Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.
I came to singing organically.
I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
After singing 'Same Love' across the nation, it's given me faith that I've underestimated the straight world.
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.
