Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

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.'

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

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

I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

Voice is my instrument.

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.

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.'

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

She has the voice of God.Someone asked me what I liked about working on Glee - I get to hear Lea Michele sing - a lot .

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.