Gary Cherone Quotes

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the songs - I didn't really think I had a voice.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

There are probably limits on what the choir can sing well.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father's tone.

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

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

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.

Your knowledge remains limited if you just listen to your songs but you grow as a singer when you listen to other singers' work - their style, accent and modulation. You end up absorbing new things.