Vocal Damage Quotes

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords and burn them.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

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've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.

There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

It took me a month to get out of the mindset of O.J. But even now, still, I think it might have done something to my vocal chords. I went to see the doctor, and he was like, 'I don't see anything. You're fine.' But mentally, I might have broke a little bit.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.