Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

I'm a proud Welshman.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

I started singing because I come from Wales.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

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

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing.

I'm a Welshman through and through.

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.

I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows.

Welsh people are loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls.