Aaron Neville Quotes

Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

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 don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

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

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

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords and burn them.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

I don't really strain my voice.

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.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

Along the way, everyone's been saying, 'Make sure you take care of your voice because you're going to want to do it the rest of your life.' And it's absolutely true.

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

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

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.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.