Kurt Elling Quotes

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

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

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.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

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

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

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

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

Those who are not trained singers will find that their voice quavers. That should not happen. The quaver should be used only where necessary and not because a singer cannot hold a note or a tune.

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 don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

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

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

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

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.