Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

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 like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to my voice. The content usually comes after or during that process of just trying to be an instrument.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

My voice is an instrument.

I love hard singing.

I use my voice as an instrument.

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

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

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

Voice is my instrument.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Singing is incredibly physical.