Vocal Rest Quotes

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

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

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

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

It's not like you have two sets of vocal cords. You only have one, and if you exhaust it from talking, then you're also affecting your singing.

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

I don't really strain my voice.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

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

It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.

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 vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.