Cody Simpson Quotes

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

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

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

As I got older, my voice got better.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

I always wanted to be a singer - my whole life, all I ever did was sing around the house.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

As I grew older, I realised that I could be versatile. I decided to try out a variety of singing styles by becoming a playback singer.

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 used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.

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.

I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could be transformed into something.

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

I want to be a country singer more than anything in the world.

It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.