Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

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.

When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

My voice is not very dynamic.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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 studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.