M. Shadows Quotes

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

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

I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.

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

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've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

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

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.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

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

I wish I could sing better.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I never took any vocal training.

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

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

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.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

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'd love to be able to sing. I make videos in my car when I'm driving back and forward between Manchester and Essex, and I try my hardest to sing well but it just doesn't work out.

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.

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.

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.

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.