Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

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

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

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.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

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

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.

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

I never took any vocal training.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

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

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

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.

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.

It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

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

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

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 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.

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

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.