“Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.” Growing UpTeacherGrowingMinesSingingChampionTherapistsBest Teacher Author:Gideon Glick
“My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.” RunningStrongVoiceTeacherDisciplineSingingTechnique Author:Lea Salonga
“When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.” WantedSchoolVoiceStudyTeacherProudSingingSingersChampionshipContestsSecondary School Author:Daesung
“I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?” SaidRememberVoiceSimpleTeacherKeysSingingAspectPianoRemember WhenPiano Keys Author:Dolora Zajick
“I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensArtSchoolArtistTeacherAdvicePaintingSingingHigh SchoolSticksGreat ArtGreat ArtistConcentratingNever Stop LearningMusic Teacher Author:Tony Bennett
“The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.” IfsFirstsSchoolRememberMovingParentSidesTeacherStageNeededSingingTailsBack And ForthChoirSomewhere Out There Author:Carrie Underwood
“When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.” IfsWantedParentTeacherSingingMy FriendsNervousSoloSeniorAuditionsFreshman Author:Toby Lightman
“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.” FirstsSaidTeacherCryCollegeSingingPerformingShockedFreshman Author:Antony Hegarty
“My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.” MotherTeacherSingingProfessorsGrandfatherMy GrandfatherMusic Teacher Author:Ed Droste
“Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.” IfsThinkingFeelsPersonsSometimesSongTeacherDogSingingCat Author:Tony Bennett
“Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.” PeopleTeacherSingingTrainSingersGet BetterMuscles Author:Luke Evans
“There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.” DifficultTeacherSinging Author:Joan Baez
“If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.” IfsWayHelpingYoungGoalVoiceEffortLordStruggleTeacherSacrificeAchieveTalentWillingSingingInfiniteGreat LoveFondnessAchieving Your GoalsGreat VoiceYoung Talent Author:Andrea Bocelli
“In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.” ValuesCoursesPleasureStudyTeacherSingingThirdsOperaColleaguesPreparingTestimonyCollectingMillenniumThesisOpera Singing Author:Andrea Bocelli
“And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.” FirstsIdeasCertainVoiceTeacherStudentsMastersSingingRelationIntimateNew IdeasNeverthelessElusiveCrackedSirensTeacher And Student Book:Memoirs of Hadrian Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.” WorldFeelsYearsStillsDifferentVoiceTeacherChildhoodPromiseSingingPraiseSizeNakedChainsVulnerablePerformingDesksJuryInadequateFittingSchoolingWovenCounselorEarly ChildhoodAdministratorsUnforgivingMemorizingCandlelightReciting Author:Virginia C. Andrews
“That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.” IfsShouldMeanPersonsSaidYoungGrowsSoundTeacherSingingJazzSingersTendenciesToneTunesFlats Author:Charles Mingus
“I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.” MotherTeacherGrewGrew UpSingingMusic Teacher Author:Connie Britton