Dominic Chianese Quotes

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

I was a born singer.

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

When I sing, people shut up.

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.