Dianne Reeves Quotes

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

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

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

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.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

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

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.

In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

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

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

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

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

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

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

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

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

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 have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

I use my voice as an instrument.