Believe Quote by Renee Fleming

The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

— Micky Dolenz

Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles…

— Gary Catona

People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it…

— Jeffrey Osborne

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work…

— Kevin Spacey

Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at…

— Jason Clarke

Every night in 'Hairspray' we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a muscle, and…

— Les Dennis

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

— Lesley Garrett

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what…

— Brian Littrell

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody…

— Todd Rundgren

As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a…

— Davey Havok

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the…

— Joan Baez