Skylar Grey Quotes

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

I never took any vocal training.

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

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

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

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

I started singing when I started talking.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

I still struggle with my low notes. It's just always been something for me: I'm not a low singer. I have a really high voice.

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

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

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.