Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

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.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.

One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

I never thought I could sing. I still don't.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

You can either sing or you can't. And I'm one of the can'ts.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.

I could read music before I could read words.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.

I'm very fortunate that R&B was where I first kind of learned my root in singing. I was able to do more with my voice and find it at an early age and then transform that into country as well.

My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.

The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.

The good lord gave me a very unusual voice, and gave me the opportunity to learn how to use it.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I'd always sing 'Greatest Love of All' by Whitney Houston. I just want to make clear, though, you know those people on 'Star Search' who are the little 7-year-olds that sound like Christina Aguilera? That wasn't me.

I wasn't talented as a musician.

I don't feel like I'm very good at making music.

I want people to hear me and say, 'Oh my God, what a voice.'

The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano, and which would it be? I would definitely choose the piano.