Quotes About Sound

I don't try to make one thing. I really try to experiment, even if its just the vocals or the beat. I can't really describe my sound.

Radio or no radio, I just like the way records sound when the drums and vocals are loud.

I'm always saying in the studio, 'My vocals are too loud!' or 'My vocals have too much effect on them!' I like some of it, but I'm not a fan of loading effects onto my voice.

It's amazing what you can do in your bathroom! I would do vocals and stuff on my computer that would need to be sent to London or New York for things to be added on, and I was thinking they always say you sound good in the bathroom - but then I'd kick the bin, or someone in the next room would flush the chain or something and I'd be like 'oh no!'

I'm chasing a feeling more than a sound and I try to reflect that in my turns of phrases. Growing up in church, people would get up and sing, and the conviction reflected in their vocals; I try to carry that in my sound.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

I thank God for the uniqueness in the sound of my voice.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

I have always had problems with my voice, and the piano helped me believe the song could be bigger than my voice, and I could play with new melodies and things that I couldn't on guitar. It was easier to make the sound fuller and easier to get away with not being as good.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

I feel like the timbre of your voice as a woman doesn't cut through as well as a loud bassy voice, so you need to noticeably speak up.

You are an instrument if you understand your voice and how to use it - this sound, that sound and certain ranges and different pitch. Within that I try to find a rhythm and play the voice as if it was a horn.

I always hear I have the voice-over voice.

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

Men scream, that's why they gave us voices.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

There's a lot of magic in voices. I love voices that are very old, very gravelly, very deep. I like metallic voices; I like velvety voices. The voices of children.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.