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I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

— Steve Perry

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I feel like I have to have a voice.

— Debbie Harry

But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.

— Crystal Gayle

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

— Sampha

I don't even think my voice is really good.

— Stephen Malkmus

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

— Teddy Thompson

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Trying to look glamorous while singing is not easy.

— Sondra Radvanovsky

The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.

— Nicole Scherzinger

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

— Kate Upton

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's great to get to make something in your own voice.

— Riki Lindhome