Barbi Benton Quotes

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

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 want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone Ranger' show, with a hearty hi-o silver, and just having fun, never really thinking I would be an announcer.

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

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

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

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

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

I truly wish I could sing.

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

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I never took any vocal training.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

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

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.