Billy Porter Quotes

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

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

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 never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

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

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.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

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

As I got older, my voice got better.

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

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

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 knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it's only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn't figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.

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 knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

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

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

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

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.