Daryl Hall Quotes

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

I don't know if vocally I am so great.

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

I always try to get to the point where I can do different things with my voice.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

I really studied her singing, trying to see what it was about her that made her such a natural, incredible singer. Because sometimes as a singer, you really have to work to reach a certain note. And for Donna Summer, it seemed effortless.

I don't hate my voice. I'm just not an Adele.