Barbi Benton Quotes

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I wish I sang better.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

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 feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

I used to tell my family that I was going to be a singer since I learned how to talk.

My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They were wrong. It took me five years.

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

I never was a very good singer.

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

I didn't want to record 'I Think We're Alone Now,' because I thought it wouldn't show that I could actually sing.

Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until 'America's Got Talent.'

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.