Joan Baez Quotes

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

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

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.

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.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

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 had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

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

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

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

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.