Rag'n'Bone Man Quotes

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

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

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

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

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

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

I don't even attempt to sing.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

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

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

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

I am a very ordinary singer who doesn't even do riyaz.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

I like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to my voice. The content usually comes after or during that process of just trying to be an instrument.

I can't sing.

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

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

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

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 enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.