Quotes About Voice

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.

I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.

When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or they're dancing because they can't move anymore, moving is not enough to express - it's this beautiful thing.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

I really love singing.

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.

If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna know my voice for singing. But if I call you on the phone - 'What's up? Are we still doing the interview today?' - you're not gonna know who this is.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I never had any singing lessons.

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.