Tony Bennett Quotes

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

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

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

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

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.

Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

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

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

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.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

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 can't sing.

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'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

Singing is incredibly physical.

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.

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 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.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

I love hard singing.