Kelli O'Hara Quotes

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

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

I do have musical background; I sing.

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.

I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

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

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.