Idina Menzel Quotes

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

I played classical as a kid.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

My degree was in opera.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.