Quotes About Singing

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

Unfortunately, 'How You Remind Me' is the song most perfectly suited to my voice.

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

When I had to sing 'Kajra re' for 'Bunty Aur Babli,' I thought that my voice will not match that of Amitabh Bachchan's.

Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.

Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.

It's something that I've always done. I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson. I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voice. I have a natural voice and don't have to take care of it.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.

I think people really like my voice, the way I sing, the things I put in a song.