Musician Quotes

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.