Quotes About Music

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar lessons, and piano lessons.

My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.

I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

A female vocal can lift a song.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my major was Music Production and Engineering, I got a good handle on the technical and creative aspects of making a record.

I never took any vocal training.

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.