You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. It's like a beautifully squeezed tube of toothpaste.
I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.
There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it.
I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.
Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.
I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk
My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
I never took any vocal training.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.
Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
