Anna Netrebko Quotes

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

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

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.

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

Singing is incredibly physical.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

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

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.

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.

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

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

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

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

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

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

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

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.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.