Singing Quotes
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Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.
Floor Jansen
Nightwish
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My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.
Mel B
Spice Girls
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
Ahmet Ertegun
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
Jon Secada
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When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
Armaan Malik
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I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.
Bonnie Tyler
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
Mavis Staples
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When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.
Antony Hegarty
Antony and the Johnsons
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
Neil Diamond
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I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.
Katie Stevens