Enrico Caruso Quotes

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

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

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

Singing is incredibly physical.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

I have moments all the time when I play.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

You sing fast and hope to get out.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

You cannot enter a studio and just start crooning before the mike. It is essential to understand the mind of the composer, mood of the song, and meter of the tune.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.