Lucas Grabeel Quotes

I was the star of the choir.

To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.

I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.

Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went in thinking of a sound I wanted. So, it's no surprise to me that he got the hit and I didn't. But what I realized was that he did dress it up nicely, and my god, he does sing on key well.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.