Margaret Cho Quotes

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

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

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

When I got back from London, I started with a new voice teacher in the experimental wing, who trained me to have my own artistry as opposed to forcing a technique upon me.

If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

I wish I sang better.

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

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

I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Every day, I start with a workout; I do vocal lessons, I do piano lessons.

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years!

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

I sang when I was in primary school, and I did singing at Sylvia Young: no acting at all.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

All of my experiences as a singer will be of good use long into the future, when I get old enough to finally train others.