Hugh Jackman Quotes

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

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

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

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.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

I love hard singing.

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 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.

I use my voice as an instrument.

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.

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 love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

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.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

I can't sing.

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

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.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

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.

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.