Kip Winger Quotes

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

I sing in key, thank you very much.

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

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

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

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.

We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

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.

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.

I couldn't even sing when I started.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

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.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

Those who are not trained singers will find that their voice quavers. That should not happen. The quaver should be used only where necessary and not because a singer cannot hold a note or a tune.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.

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

When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.

Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.

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

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.