The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
I didn't want to record 'I Think We're Alone Now,' because I thought it wouldn't show that I could actually sing.
I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer.
I have a talent, I can sing.
I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.
You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.
We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.
I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of 'doo wah wahs,' if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them.
I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.
I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.
I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.
I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.
I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.
Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.
I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.
Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.
Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.
I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
