Theophilus London Quotes

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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

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.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

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 was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

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

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

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Singing is incredibly physical.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

I love hard singing.

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.

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

I use my voice as an instrument.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.