Jane McDonald Quotes

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

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

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.