Caroline Shaw Quotes

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

I can't sing.

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.

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

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

Singing is incredibly physical.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I love hard singing.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I can sing; I can hold a tune.

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 love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

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 think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

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.

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times, I do choose to and do sing the asthayi and antara in one take, respectively. And I give a few takes until I feel it is perfect.

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

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

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

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 am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

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