Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

I have never been too concerned about things you're supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there's something underneath all that.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

All my vocal coaches have been pretty great. Thank God.

Performing is fine.

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

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 realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.