Ciara Quotes

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

I used to dance around the house and taught myself the 'Annie' soundtrack. I got into singing and fell in love with it.

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

I never went to music school.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

I was an arts kid in every form of the word you can imagine. I wanted to sing and dance and act - I wanted to do it all. At a very young age, I was put in performing arts schools where I got to do those things every single day.

High school at LaGuardia really was like 'Fame.' People would sing in the halls and look for ways to show off their talent.