Kip Winger Quotes

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

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

All my voice training comes from choir and small ensemble singing.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a 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.

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.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

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

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

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.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

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

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I never took any vocal training.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

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 took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

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.