Jacob Collier Quotes

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I sing every day, on a regular basis.

I sang in choir as a kid.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

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

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.