Javed Ali Quotes

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

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

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

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

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.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

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've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

I am a very ordinary singer who doesn't even do riyaz.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

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

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

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

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.