Vocal Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

  Billy West

  Wells, Devices, Happens

  Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.

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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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• But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals

  Lita Ford

  Records, Next, Albums

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• Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

  Oliver Sacks

  Brain, Addresses, Hallucinations

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• I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Mean, Way

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

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• Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.

  Jeff Mathews

  Believe, Eye, Artist

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• Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Competition, Conversation, Catching

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• By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

  Damon Knight

  Wall, Glasses, Giving

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• Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Average, Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Anthony Trollope (1867). “Tales of All Countries”, p.86

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• Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.

  Andy Biersack

  Makeup, Play, Would Be

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• If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Stay Strong, Quiet, Lied

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• I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

  Lisa Loeb

  Simple, Two, Focus

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

  Mark Mobius

  Believe, Responsibility, Progress

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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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• I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Piano, Lines

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  Imre Lakatos

  Lying, Numbers, Judging

  "Peirce's Theory of Inquiry and Beyond" by Thora Margareta Bertilsson, (p. 41), 2009.

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• I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's music. Yet there are stylists whose technical skills are so underdeveloped they can sing only their own songs their own way. They might be remembered for their hits longer than I am. I'll probably be working longer than they are. I can sing whatever the times and the trends demand.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Breathing, Skills

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• My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Writing, Ability

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• Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

  Alma Gluck

  Art, Energy, Literature

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• Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

  Alma Gluck

  Teacher, Hands, Understanding

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