Vocal Development Quotes

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

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.

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

When I heard my voice, like listen to myself playing it back-to-back, I just want to always perfect it.

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

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

I've been singing since I was 12. And I think that all the information is finally starting to chill out. And I don't have to be fancy. I can just kind of do things and simplify things and try to be the best singer I can be.

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

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

I started as a guitarist and couldn't find a decent singer, so I started providing my own vocals.

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

I think I've gradually learned to become more of a frontman than I was initially. I mean, when I first started, especially playing with Alter Bridge, you know, I really considered myself more a guitar player who sang.

They would call me 'The Cleaner' because I would replace boys who were real adolescents, and their voices completely changed, and they couldn't do the voices anymore.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.

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

I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.