Katherine Jenkins Quotes

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

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

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.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

I do not support that everyone has to be a trained classical singer to be able to sing in films but some sort of knowledge in classical space can take you to places.

After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

I love the challenge of singing something that's not that easy.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.

I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel a lot more personal criticism when somebody tells you that you don't have a good voice.

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.

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

Singing is my first love.