Vocal Change Quotes

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

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.

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it's only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn't figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.

There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.

One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.