Cynthia Erivo Quotes

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

I'm an ice cream lover, but anytime it's show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn't good for vocalists.

I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

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.

It's not like you have two sets of vocal cords. You only have one, and if you exhaust it from talking, then you're also affecting your singing.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it gets more use than any other muscle.

The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills stopped singing in her 50s, so I'm careful with mine. But I'll keep going as long as it lets me.

I do some dairy. I'm careful on that; it needs to be hormone free. But everybody has to have ice cream!

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voice. I have a natural voice and don't have to take care of it.

I was allergic to milk as a child. My older brother would always get a big glass and drink it in front of me all the time.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I'm lactose intolerant, so usually pizza makes me feel horrible. But I'll occasionally go very hard and do pizza and pineapple.