Cassadee Pope Quotes

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

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

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.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

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.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

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

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

I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' and I had to sing. It was terrible.

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

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

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

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 think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

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

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

I never was a very good singer.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

I have a pretty lousy voice.