Music Audition Quotes

#1. When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

Vanessa Lengies

#2. Holding onto a grudge gives you an extra load to carry in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.

Fleur East

#4. I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.

Peter Hook

#5. I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

Regina Spektor

#6. The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

Nick Vujicic

#7. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

Bryant McGill

#9. There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel. (p. 343)

Rebecca Goldstein

#10. The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Tana French

#12. My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. Greatest stuff in the world. Superman's duct tape.

James L. Cambias

#14. Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

China Anne McClain

#16. My God. You have the heart of a capo, do you know that? You could have brought Sicily to its knees. No don would stand against you.

C.D. Reiss

#17. When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

Audra McDonald

#18. Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.

Leon Bridges

#19. In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

Justin Timberlake