Patti LuPone Quotes

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

I've always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I've been doing it for so many years.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.

My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.

There are situations when, in your singing, in your interpretation of songs, for instance, when you want a straight tone. And I have to work really hard at getting a straight tone... That's sort of like if you have curly hair, you have curly hair.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.