Penny Marshall Quotes

I wish I sang better.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

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

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'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.

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

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

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

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

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.

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 sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

I never was a very good singer.

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

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

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

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.

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

All my vocal coaches have been pretty great. Thank God.

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.