Johnny Mathis Quotes

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Vocally, it's important to sing every day. It's a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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.

I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren't there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn't singing, sometimes twice a day.

In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

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.

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

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

I never took any vocal training.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

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

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

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.

The first thing I will say about looking after your voice is get a pair of in-ear monitors because one of the most common problems singers have is trying to hear themselves on stage.