Julie Andrews Quotes

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

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

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

As luck would have it, my voice is best when it's kind of blown out.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

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

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

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

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

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

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 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 just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

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

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.