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CHAD KIMBALL![]()
After about three lessons the voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way."
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After about three lessons my voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a...
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OM PURI I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank...
ANDRA DAY I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it ...
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I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera caree...
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CECILIA BARTOLI![]()
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surp...
GERARD BUTLER I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more...
CAROLE KING As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it ...
ZOLA JESUS I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,...
LATOYA LONDON![]()
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surp...
GERARD BUTLER![]()
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
ROBERT SMITH My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI![]()
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting fir...
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LATOYA LONDON![]()
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'...
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I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
AUSTIN PECK I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANT I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
ALEX WINSTON![]()
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?
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REBECCA FERGUSON![]()
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I want...
ZOE SALDANA I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always b...
DIANE WAKOSKI![]()
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling...
JEFF FOXWORTHY I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.
CASSADEE POPE![]()
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE![]()
He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
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When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ...
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BETTY BUCKLEY![]()
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
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Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
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OSCAR ISAAC I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
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I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've n...
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear ...
KING KRULE When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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VALERIE JUNE It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked...
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my fa...
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When I first started thinking of 'M:i:III,' I wanted to create a summer experience. I remember my su...
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I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
LILLY SINGH At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
EARL SWEATSHIRT![]()
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, anothe...
ANAïS NIN![]()
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche...
CHRIS BROWN![]()
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
NICOLAS CAGE![]()
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen...
NICOLAS CAGE![]()
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
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I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very caref...
JULIE ANDREWS![]()
I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called '...
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CHARLIE PUTH I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.
BARBARA SAUNDERS![]()
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SAM SMITH I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
BOB GRAHAM When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my ...
MARSHA NORMAN When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the l...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE![]()
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac...
GASTON LEROUX![]()
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of t...
BARRY JENKINS![]()
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty...
SHAKIRA It was a very, very busy clinic. When they first started out it was really geared towards lower-inco...
JANET SACAVAGE![]()
It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
EARL CAMPBELL![]()
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The ...
LADY GAGA I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour du...
JOSH YOUNG I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have ...
PATSY CLINE My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
GALE GORDON
MELANIE FIONA When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably sp...
JOHNNY MATHIS I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera ...
ROBERT ASHLEY I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was r...
DAYA We had a great drama department and a great on site voice teacher actually. I started taking lessons...
CHAD KIMBALL
After about three lessons the voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way." JOHNNY CASH
After about three lessons my voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a... JOHNNY CASH When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank...
ANDRA DAY I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington...
KYLE MACLACHLAN First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me...
LILLA CRAWFORD
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera caree... MERYL STREEP When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surp... GERARD BUTLER I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more...
CAROLE KING As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it ...
ZOLA JESUS I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,...
LATOYA LONDON
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surp... GERARD BUTLER
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ROBERT SMITH My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting fir... LINDSAY LOHAN Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri...
AMANDA SEYFRIED When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ...
MIRANDA COSGROVE I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston,...
LATOYA LONDON
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. AUSTIN PECK
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'... ANDREA BOCELLI When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice...
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. AUSTIN PECK I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANT I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
ALEX WINSTON
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons j...
JENNIFER DAMIANO
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth bi... ALESSIA CARA I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could ...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I want... ZOE SALDANA I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always b...
DIANE WAKOSKI
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling... JEFF FOXWORTHY I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.
CASSADEE POPE
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice. SUZANNE COLLINS My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
LINDA LAVIN
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ... BEN BARNES
One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her... NATURI NAUGHTON For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The ...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance. HARRY DEAN STANTON From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community the...
REGGIE LEE
Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up. ARIANA GRANDE My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've n... LIV TYLER
When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great mov... MILEY CYRUS I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it ...
LEA SALONGA I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN ARC
When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice.... BOB NEWHART Beautifying the campus and designing a new advising system among other initiatives since [Chancellor...
BIZ VOICE
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. OKSANA BAIUL I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear t...
MEG WHITE
I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear ... KING KRULE When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
SABRINA CARPENTER When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voic...
ARIJIT SINGH When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the worl...
VALERIE JUNE It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked...
BERNADETTE PETERS I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college. HARRY DEAN STANTON
I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my fa... MALUMA
When I first started thinking of 'M:i:III,' I wanted to create a summer experience. I remember my su... TOM CRUISE
I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people. LILLY SINGH At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, anothe... ANAïS NIN
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche... CHRIS BROWN
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen... NICOLAS CAGE
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen... NICOLAS CAGE
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. MARIA CALLAS
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very caref... JULIE ANDREWS
I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called '... ODETTE ANNABLE If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is ...
SANGU MANDANNA I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. ...
PADDY CONSIDINE
I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the ... GINA BELLMAN
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always b... DOLLY PARTON I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. ...
RUTINA WESLEY
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he... CHARLIE PUTH I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.
BARBARA SAUNDERS
I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained ... SAM SMITH I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
BOB GRAHAM When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my ...
MARSHA NORMAN When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the l...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac... GASTON LEROUX
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and... SUZANNE COLLINS As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of t...
BARRY JENKINS
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty... SHAKIRA It was a very, very busy clinic. When they first started out it was really geared towards lower-inco...
JANET SACAVAGE
It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit. EARL CAMPBELL
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The ... LADY GAGA I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour du...
JOSH YOUNG I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have ...
PATSY CLINE My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
GALE GORDON
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