Shuler Hensley Quotes

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

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

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

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 started when I was about 11, singing.

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

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.

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.

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

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.

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.

I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.