Jeffrey Osborne 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.

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

I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

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

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

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

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.'

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

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

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

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.

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

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

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

I never took any vocal training.

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.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I don't really strain my voice.

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.

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.