Quotes About Sound

With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

To have the sound I have, to pretty much close out a festival, it's something I didn't see much of in school. It was always pop singers and rappers. It's so cool to see that space for R&B getting bigger.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

I'd often use a Leslie cabinet on its own in the studio because everyone in the late Sixties and Seventies was experimenting with them. We'd stick anything through a Leslie because it made everything sound so good.

People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are blades.

I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

I love recording music.

In Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!