Vocal Quotes

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  The only thing better than singing is more singing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Birthday, Music

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• I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Money, Lied, Spending

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• There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

  Johnny Winter

  Two, Blue, People

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

  Colin Firth

  Expectations, Musical, News

  "Respectable showing for British actors as ex-spouses square up for Oscar glory" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 02, 2010.

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• If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me.

  CM Punk

  Thinking, Spots, Right Now

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

  Robert Wyatt

  Quality, Instruments

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Education, Courage, Wings

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• Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
  And there be words not made with lungs.

  Richard Crashaw

  Inspirational, Eye, Tears

  "Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Opera

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

  Tom Waits

  Believe, Demos, Temporary

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.

  Laura Benanti

  Writing, Rocks, Quality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

  James Lane Allen

  Stars, Wall, Flower

  "A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works".

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• I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

  Adam Lambert

  Opinion, Not Afraid

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• And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

  Paul McCartney

  Sense Of Humor, Fats, Ability

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

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• When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Crazy, Impact, People

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• There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

  Seth MacFarlane

  People, Advancement

  "Hungover with Seth MacFarlane". Interview with Stacey Grenrock Woods, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2009.

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• Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Song, Space, Track

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• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, Differences, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Random Things

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  Zac Efron

  Artist, Singing, Musical

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Taken, Rocks, Individuality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

  David Brin

  Political, Empowering, Democracy

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• I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

  Mary J. Blige

  Apples, Vines, Cider

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• In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Tickets, Fans, Dollars

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2012.

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• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Gary Numan answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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