Daphne Guinness Quotes

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 mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I was a born singer.

It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.

I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

I was sort of brought up to sing from the age of two or three I was definitely giving it a go.

One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.

Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could be transformed into something.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

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

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

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

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.