Brian Littrell Quotes

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

I've had cysts on my vocal chords.

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That's what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it gets more use than any other muscle.