Vera Lynn Quotes

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

I never sing in the shower either.

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

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

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.

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.

I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren't there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn't singing, sometimes twice a day.

I wish I had a great singing voice.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

I sing Broadway stuff in the shower, mostly.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

I'm not the best singer.

Being in a boy band, you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really allowed to be a songwriter. You're not allowed to be that good a singer.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

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

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 had a hole in my voice. I still do. We call it a hole, but it's an area in the voice where it's air. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in the middle area, it was really hard.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

It was what I did after school. I'd learn a song in choir that day and I'd sing it, all the parts.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

All my vocal coaches have been pretty great. Thank God.

My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.