Mark Lanegan Quotes

I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous.

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

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

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn't used to singing so much. Now I've learned, when I'm singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn't know how to preserve it for the next show.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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 just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

All the experience from 'X Factor' U.K. I can use that - I know what I'm doing on a big stage.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

I've never done any vocal warm ups, ever. As a matter of fact, I learned to sing playing three sets a night in smoky clubs.

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

I'm an intense singer, so I look like I need the toilet every time I hit a high-note.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

I feel like maybe I get more nervous when I'm singing. One, it's live. Two, there's a lot of people watching. And three, you have to make sure you get the right notes and everything.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of Seville.' I walked out onstage, and people started laughing and clapping, and that was it. That was all it took. Laughing and clapping, I still enjoy today.

I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.