Sara Chase Quotes

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I like 'Glee' because I love all the singing. It's like an hour-long music video. Those kids are so talented, and I love 'The Glee Project'.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

I love musicals. I'm a big 'Glee' watcher.

I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.

I remember going on iTunes and 'Hamilton' was like the number one rap album, above like Fetty Wap, which is just impossible, like a Broadway cast album.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.

I'm a very emotional singer and songwriter.

When I got into college, I got into operatic vocalists, like Leontyne Price.