Neil Sedaka Quotes

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

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

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

I never took any vocal training.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

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.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

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.

When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.

I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren't there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn't singing, sometimes twice a day.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

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.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.