Coaches Quote by Blake Shelton

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that…

— Margaret Cho

It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really…

— Tessanne Chin

I was that kid that did dance, singing, pageants. I did everything pretty much across the board, so it was kind of an adjustment…

— Normani Kordei

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

— Nina Simone

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

— Steve Earle

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in…

— Lily Allen

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform,…

— Henry Rollins

Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that…

— Alyson Stoner

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

— Pete Seeger

I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told…

— Tori Kelly

One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew…

— Mavis Staples