Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

I don't really strain my voice.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.

You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.