- Nov 07, 2020
Voice Quotes
Every voice carries something different.
These lines move between the literal — a performer's range and technique — and the personal, like speaking up for people who feel unheard. For more first-person reflection, see our Me quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that as long as I was able, I was supposed to give all I've got to ensure a healthy and loving legacy for those still to come, and especially for those with no voice.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.
- Freak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020