Josh Groban Quotes

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I guess I'm not really into female vocals that sound masculine, I guess. A lot of times, the heavy female vocalists always end up sounding like they're screaming or whatever.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

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.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.