Josh Groban Quotes

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Josh Groban

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 27, 1981

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

Josh Groban

I definitely break out karaoke when my friends have birthday parties.

Josh Groban

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

Josh Groban

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Josh Groban

We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years old, it's just magnificent. The story-telling, the music - it lifts you out of your seat.

Josh Groban

I first started listening to Sondheim's work when I was a kid.

Josh Groban

I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia.

Josh Groban

There are so many incredible causes, no one better than the other. There are lots of organizations that need our help and lots of ways we need to help one another.

Josh Groban

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

Josh Groban

Everybody wants to experiment, wants to explore. You should hear me at karaoke. I can sing anything you throw at me. I can do a good Dave Grohl.

Josh Groban

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Josh Groban

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

Josh Groban

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Josh Groban

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

Josh Groban

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Josh Groban

I grew up in Los Angeles, and my first musical theatre experiences were at the Music Center in downtown L.A.

Josh Groban

The time period I had in my life to look like an idiot and fail, and for no one to see that, came and went when I was 17. When you have early success, people are just lying in wait.

Josh Groban

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

Josh Groban

I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I was OK.

Josh Groban