Hollie Cavanagh Quotes

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

I'm an OK singer.

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

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

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 can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

I think I'm a soulful singer.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I've always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I've been doing it for so many years.

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

I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

Where I think the American actor is slightly at a disadvantage is in vocal technique. I don't think that words are their friend in the same way that English actors are used to using words: understanding about consonance and how to shade a vowel to show emotional color.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

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

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.