Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

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

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

My degree was in opera.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.

Do I appear to you to have come to a wrong decision, if I devote that time to philosophy, which I otherwise should have spent at the loom?

In spite of the fact of my dad telling me that if I did well, I could go to the military, I said, 'No, I want to go to college.'

What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn't really date the dude with the saxophone.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

My dad said: Now Teddy, you have to make up your mind whether you want to have a constructive and positive attitude and influence on your time. And if you're not interested in a purposeful, useful, constructive life, I just want you to know I have other children that are out there that intend to have a purposeful and constructive life. And so you have to make up your mind about which direction you're going to go. I remember getting - climbing into bed and staring at the ceiling for a good time, but the night hadn't been over when it was very clear to me what kind of life I wanted to lead.

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".