Juan Diego Florez Quotes

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

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

My degree was in opera.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.

Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I sang in choir as a kid.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.

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

I started singing in college just as a fun thing to entertain.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

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

Besides makeup, my other passion is music.