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• I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

  Neil Sedaka

  Song, Writing, Voice

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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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• 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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• 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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• Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

  Matthew Lillard

  Stars, Space, Rocks

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

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• But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

  Heath Ledger

  Rocks, Eggs, House

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

  Neville Marriner

  Use, Language, Certain

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Mom, Fall, Years

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• I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  Babyface

  Artist, Track

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• There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

  Fergie

  Rocks, People, Different

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• Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.

  Bob Seger

  Strong, Blessed, Healthy

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets: An Interview With Bob Seger". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

  Peter Gabriel

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

  Anita Baker

  Kissing, People, Singers

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• Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

  Michael Azerrad

  Sound, Nails, Nine

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