Breath Support Quotes

It took me five years to learn how to sing.

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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

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

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

I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

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.

When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

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

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.