Heber J. Grant Quotes

I do not support that everyone has to be a trained classical singer to be able to sing in films but some sort of knowledge in classical space can take you to places.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.

My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.

I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.

I am a very ordinary singer who doesn't even do riyaz.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

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.

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

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.

I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

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

I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

All my voice training comes from choir and small ensemble singing.