Musical Choice Quotes

I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.

If you do street music, do it. So be it. That's not me.

I wound up sticking with violin because it was the strongest current in my life.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

Certainly the most requested song in performance is 'Love is Here to Stay,' and that is a favorite for me.

I didn't take up 'Chinnanchiru Kiliye' thinking I should continue on these lines from now on.

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.