Josh Groban Quotes

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Josh Groban

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 27, 1981

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Josh Groban

I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.

Josh Groban

I'm ruthlessly picky when it comes to the crafting of an album, the choosing of musicians, the right mikes, the right studios. There was a time when it was, 'whatever you want.' Then, as you learn a little bit more about your tastes, I don't give in to that kind of thing.

Josh Groban

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Josh Groban

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

Josh Groban

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Josh Groban

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

Josh Groban

I wore out the Broadway 'Tommy' recording. I just loved it.

Josh Groban

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Josh Groban

I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.

Josh Groban

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

Josh Groban

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

Josh Groban

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Josh Groban

You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

Josh Groban

I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.

Josh Groban

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

Josh Groban

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Josh Groban

I've seen a lot of people burn very brightly and very quickly, and I think you can become overindulgent sooo quickly in this business, and so I try not to fall into any of the trappings that would affect me very negatively.

Josh Groban

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Josh Groban