Dianne Reeves Quotes

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

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

Singing is incredibly physical.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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.

I love hard singing.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

I use my voice as an instrument.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

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.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.