Vocal Quotes - Page 3

• Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

  Sloane Crosley

  Running, Mean, Knowing

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• I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

  Joan Jett

  Hours, Shows, Warm

  "Women in Music: Joan Jett". Interview With Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. June 15, 2009.

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• A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

  Adam Lambert

  People, Males, Mercury

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• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Moving, Feel Better

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• Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

  Robert Smith

  Home, Makeup, Havens

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• Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Black And White, Feelings, Would Be

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

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• A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Black, Twenties

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• Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

  Adele

  Cry, Vocal Cords, Cords

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Lying, Giving, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

  Nick Cannon

  Play, Hip Hop, Musician

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• You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Humorous, Mean

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic

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• To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Being Alone, Darkness, Invisible

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.296, Wordsworth Editions

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• By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

  Eckhart Tolle

  Confused, Sound, Depth

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• with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Use, Kind

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• My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

  Frank Sinatra

  Teacher, Singers, Way

  Foreword to George T Simon The Big Bands (1967).

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• The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

  Joni Mitchell

  Strong, Blue, Secret

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• As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

  Neville Marriner

  Use, Language, Certain

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• Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

  William Faulkner

  Sorrow, Sound, Might

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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