Neil Sedaka Quotes

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

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.

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.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

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.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

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

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

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

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

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

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.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.