Anna Netrebko Quotes

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

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.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued at the end of a phrase - the amount of respect I have for singers!

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.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

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.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

I never had any singing lessons.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

I never was a very good singer.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

I really do think everybody can sing.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

Always sing below your potential.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.