Jillian Hervey Quotes

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

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

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

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.

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

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

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar.

I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.