I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I’d call and pretend I was Lady Gaga’s manager.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

A chorus is not easy.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

An operatic voice is like no other.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

I’m really a normal football manager.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‚Radio Gaga.‘

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I’ve conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I’ve sang and danced at La Scala!

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I’d love to do a musical. I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

The way ‚Lux‘ was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.