Bryn Terfel Quotes

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

I never took any vocal training.

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

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

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.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

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.

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

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.'

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

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 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 don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

Vocally, it's important to sing every day. It's a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

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.