Kelli O'Hara Quotes

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'.

When I was 13, I posted a video of myself singing a Bruno Mars song on YouTube.

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.

New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I love to sing with great singers.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.