Bryson Tiller Quotes

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

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

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.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.

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.

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

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

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

I sing like a girl.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.