Stephen Costello Quotes

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

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

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

I like to keep my voice going. I don't want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it's easier for you to lose it.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren't there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn't singing, sometimes twice a day.