Trey Songz Quotes

To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

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

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.

I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.

I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.'

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I started singing when I started talking.

I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.

Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.