Johnny Mathis Quotes

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

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

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

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

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

I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.

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

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

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

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.

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've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

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

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

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

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.

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.

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 takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.