Darci Lynne Farmer Quotes

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

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

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

I enjoy singing.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

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

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 don't even attempt to sing.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

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 lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

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.

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.