Vocal Quotes - Page 6

• The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

  Jerry Harrison

  Song, People, Draws

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• I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri... The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life.

  Marie Daulne

  Voice, Way, Firsts

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• Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

  Peter Sellers

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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• But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

  Glenn Danzig

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Childhood

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.653

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• For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

  Eugenio Montale

  Aggravation, Sound, Speech

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• I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

  Julie London

  Teacher, Cutting, Thinking

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• There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

  Mike McCready

  Rocks, Insecurity, Musician

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• The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

  E. M. Broner

  Singing Songs, Vocal Music, Chords

  E. M. Broner (1982). “A weave of women”

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• Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Sparks, Instinct

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.137

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• I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

  Grimes

  Humanity, The End Of The Day, Portraits

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• When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Home, Voice, Attention

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  Alan Price

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

  James Young

  Running, Technology, People

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• I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

  Lesley Garrett

  Hygiene

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

  Zakk Wylde

  Guitar, Study, Sat

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• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  Jack Bruce

  Problem, Lifestyle, Range

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• When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Fake, Sound

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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

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• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Voice

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals

  Bill Milkowski

  Leader, Haunting, Superb

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• The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.

  John Berger

  Song, Order, Essence

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