Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

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.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

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

In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

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

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

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

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

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

When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

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

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

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

I'm trying to get better at singing. I just want to be great vocally on stage so I can give fans a real show, like Jazmine Sullivan does.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

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.