Bonnie Tyler Quotes

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

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

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.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I never took any vocal training.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

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

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.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

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

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.

The first thing I will say about looking after your voice is get a pair of in-ear monitors because one of the most common problems singers have is trying to hear themselves on stage.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

Vocally, it's important to sing every day. It's a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.

In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.

As luck would have it, my voice is best when it's kind of blown out.

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.

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.