Jorja Smith Quotes

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

I enjoy singing.

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 studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear 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.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

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

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I do not support that everyone has to be a trained classical singer to be able to sing in films but some sort of knowledge in classical space can take you to places.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.

I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.