top of page
"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Singing quotes

"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
Explore more quotes by Kathy Mattea

"I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that."

"You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it."

"I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again."

"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball."

"We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity."

"So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me."

"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."

"Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts."

"Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family."
bottom of page