Anna Netrebko Quotes

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

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

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

I'm never the best singer in the world.

When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.

I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote.

My singing voice has sort of an Ethel Merman-type quality: just, like, loud and strong and full.

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

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

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

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.