I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.
Naturi Naughton
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm s...
FANTASIA BARRINO I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow...
BILLY IDOL My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i...
KEKE PALMER I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I...
CAITLIN HALE Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the ...
DARYL HALL I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
NANA MOUSKOURI I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
BECKY G I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '...
CASSIE STEELE I just like singing because I grew up -- and everybody sings in my family.
COLLIN LAPP I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul...
MICHAEL KIWANUKA Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.
SLIM WHITMAN I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again...
ARTHUR FREED I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
D'ANGELO I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famo...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu...
LAINIE KAZAN I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
AARON NEVILLE The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
SAMMY HAGAR I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire lif...
KELLY HU I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,...
LATOYA LONDON When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their sin...
ERNEST GAINES Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing ...
IDINA MENZEL I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in churc...
NATURI NAUGHTON Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri...
AMANDA SEYFRIED One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her...
NATURI NAUGHTON My father started me singing in church.
DEFOREST KELLEY I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing someth...
HODA KOTB I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si...
SAMANTHA BARKS I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
TAYE DIGGS I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,...
LATOYA LONDON When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd ha...
LULU My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'S...
BENJAMIN BOOKER You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they natural...
KEHLANI I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indign...
MARISA TOMEI Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the b...
JAMES DARREN You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've...
SHAWN MENDES When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer wh...
ROBERT WYATT I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular p...
LANGHORNE SLIM I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising gu...
DAVID GILMOUR I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those wer...
CASSADEE POPE I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a ch...
JESSYE NORMAN Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do i...
NATURI NAUGHTON I love singing, it lifts my spirit.
LINDSEY WIXSON If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
CHINESE PROVERB It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
MANIKA You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, co...
BARBARA MANDRELL I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
JUHI CHAWLA My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano a...
PARK BO-GUM I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was '...
LAURA BENANTI I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, ...
HOZIER My heart is like a singing bird.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI My heart is like a singing bird.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing...
BURTON CUMMINGS When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
AARON NEVILLE I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to...
DHANUSH The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I...
DAVID JOHANSEN I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was...
J. D. SOUTHER If you aren't singing, you are not a singer.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see peopl...
CONOR OBERST I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There&...
BONNIE TYLER I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I stood in front of Sony (Music headquarters) out here, I stood right in front of the building with ...
KELLY CLARKSON I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that jour...
DAVID NAIL I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
PINK I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I...
JASON MRAZ If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched re...
TOMMY SHAW I really love singing.
ANDREA CORR I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwas...
LINDA RONSTADT I love music, and I love singing.
BEN BARNES I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a ...
BRIAN WILSON The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by mys...
LINDA RONSTADT There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
BESSIE SMITH There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love sin...
GEORGE BENSON I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inn...
KAILASH KHER What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-...
ERNEST GAINES My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ...
ALEXANDER CHEE I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
BOBBY WOMACK For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' ...
LAURA BENANTI My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people...
REEVE CARNEY If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.
CYNTHIA ERIVO I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
DEBBY BOONE Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when ...
ARIANA GRANDE I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture...
DAVID JOHANSEN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable ...
KATIE FINNERAN I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just somet...
JUSTIN BIEBER When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately...
JONATHAN DEMME I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.
COLE SWINDELL I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my s...
CHANNING TATUM My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well...
EDDIE MARSAN When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I had a gig in Sweden. There were thousands of people there, and when I launched into 'I'm Y...
JASON MRAZ I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
MICK JAGGER I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becomin...
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