Top 33 Singing Voice Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Singing Voice Quotes from famous people such as Sam Smith, Jennifer Holliday, Joy Harjo, Beanie Feldstein, B. B. King, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm

I want to make the music that’s not there anymore. I’m so passionate about the singing voice… What I’m trying to do actually with my album is show that it’s my voice that’s leading. It’s my voice that’s the instrument.
Sam Smith
For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.
Jennifer Holliday
I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.
Joy Harjo
My singing voice has sort of an Ethel Merman-type quality: just, like, loud and strong and full.
Beanie Feldstein
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. King
I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical ‘Annie’ for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
Sarah Paulson
As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.
Adam Schlesinger
In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day – no, really!
Miranda Hart
With ‘Fate’s Right Hand,’ I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.
Rodney Crowell
My own singing voice is not very good and I don’t think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
Jane Horrocks
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn’t really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
Chris Burke
I actually have a decent singing voice, and I’ve never been able to sing onscreen. I’d love to do a musical.
Ed Harris
When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.
The D.O.C.
I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies’ club.
Norman Lloyd
I’m a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
Hoda Kotb
You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
Kathy Mattea
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice – they teach you breathing, resonance.
Harry Dean Stanton
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
Colin Firth
It was always difficult for me to listen to my singing voice for the first 20 years or so. I mean, I really enjoyed singing, and I enjoyed doing live shows, but being in a recording studio and having to hear my voice played back to me would really drive me up the wall.
John Prine
I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don’t think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn’t put it out in the world!
Katherine Jenkins
As a vocalist, I can scream, and I’ve got a really good singing voice, but I can’t do the really heavy vocals.
Devin Townsend
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school – I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn’t as a singer.
Alexander Chee
I like Joan Jett’s ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ because it’s got a nice low singing voice.
Mel Giedroyc
I wish I had a great singing voice.
Mandy Ingber
I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.
Alexander Chee
Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my singing voice, I don’t feel any dysphoria with my talking voice.
Laura Jane Grace
My singing voice is very specific to me. That’s my natural voice when I sing.
Gus Dapperton
I don’t like my voice, and I don’t enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.
Romeo Santos
I play the mandolin, which people don’t often expect great things from. But it has it’s charms, and it’s my voice. I feel like I had as little choice in the matter as I do my speaking and singing voice.
Chris Thile
I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven’t got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn’t up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.
Ruth Wilson
Everyone thinks I’m singing falsetto, but that’s my normal singing voice.
Slim Whitman
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can’t rely on the singing voice.
Edward Hirsch
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy’s actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Jessica Lange