Vocal Control Quotes

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.

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

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

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.

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

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

I love hard singing.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

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.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.