Dale Robertson Quotes

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

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

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.