Cass McCombs Quotes

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

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

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

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

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

I'm not the best singer.

I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.

I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.

Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

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

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I wish I could sing better.

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.