Mordechai Vanunu Quotes

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

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

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

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 to conduct opera.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.