David Lammy Quotes

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

I've been singing in church and wherever else I got the chance since I was 3.

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

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

I sang in choir as a kid.

I've been singing since I was young.

I've always wanted to be a musician. I love music; like, I probably sang when I was born.

In my opinion, anybody can sing. If they have a voice, they must sing.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

I knew that I wanted to be a singer when I was 10 years old.

I wasn't very good at studies but was into a lot of extra-curricular activities. I used to play the keyboard and bass guitar in my school band and went on to study keyboard from Trinity College, London.

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.