Jessica Pare Quotes

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

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.

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'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

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

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

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.

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

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

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.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

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

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

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

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

As a singer, you can't hear what's coming out of your throat; you're only hearing it from the inside, so you need a trusted person who knows how your voice works. It's like a car. You take it to the same mechanic because they know it inside out, and every time you get it back, it works fantastic.