Vera Lynn Quotes

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills stopped singing in her 50s, so I'm careful with mine. But I'll keep going as long as it lets me.

Screaming is hard after a while.

I like to keep my voice going. I don't want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it's easier for you to lose it.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

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.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

I don't really strain my voice.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.