Maria Callas Quotes

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.

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

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.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

I sing like a girl.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.

My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

My singing voice is very specific to me. That's my natural voice when I sing.

My voice is not very dynamic.

As luck would have it, my voice is best when it's kind of blown out.

My voice is not angel voice.

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.'

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

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.

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

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

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 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.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.