K. J. Yesudas Quotes

I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

As I got older, my voice got better.

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

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

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

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

I still struggle with my low notes. It's just always been something for me: I'm not a low singer. I have a really high voice.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

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