I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that. — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just,… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting.… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like,… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz.… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that. — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
