Len Cariou Quotes

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

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.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

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.

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

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

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

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 had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

Everyone was like, 'Yeah this kid won't be able to sing when his voice changes, he'll have no career.' But it's gotten much better.

I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

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.

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

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I wish I could sing better.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

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.