Johnny Mathis Quotes

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

I'm an intense singer, so I look like I need the toilet every time I hit a high-note.

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

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

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

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

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.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I never was a very good singer.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

I don't know if vocally I am so great.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

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.

If I could sing like a Chaka Khan, an Aretha, a Kim Burrell, if I could do all these amazing runs and belt it out, I would. I've attempted that, and it's not something anyone would want to hear.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

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

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.