Chinmayi Quotes

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

I can't sing.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

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.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued at the end of a phrase - the amount of respect I have for singers!

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.

I'm an intense singer, so I look like I need the toilet every time I hit a high-note.

In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.