Jose Carreras Quotes

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.

I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people do; I also know that a lot of other people act like I do. And better than I do. But what informs the singing is the acting. They're not separate from each other.

When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

When I came to Mumbai, I realised an individual should be versatile, and in playback singing you have different genres where you can explore yourself.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.