Rob Halford Quotes

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

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

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.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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

It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

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

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

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.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

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.

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

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.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

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.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.