Shelly Burch Quotes

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

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.

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.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

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

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

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

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I've always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I've been doing it for so many years.

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

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.

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

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

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

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

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.