Quotes About Voice

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

I was born with a cyst on my vocal cords.

I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.

I prefer alkaline water. Good for the vocal cords, especially if you take it in the morning.

Before getting on 'The Voice,' I was very critical and judgmental of people's vocals. After getting on the show, I was so nervous, I realized my low notes were gone, so nerves do take a big toll on your voice.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.

There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

Actually, if you listen to the vocals on my grandfather's records, you will hear we sound similar. We both sound kind of dry. We have a dry voice, and we both love harmony - he was a man of harmony, I'm a man of harmony. I think it just runs in our blood.

Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R&B artists like Beyonce. I'm a big fan of her mainly because of her vocals. They're just so awesome. I love her and Christina Aguilera, and that whole urban kind of feel is really great, especially with my voice.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

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.

The vocals are aggressive not because I want to create an evil voice or anything like that, but because when I sing about angry things that's the way it comes out of me.

'Vogue' should be about giving a voice to all different cultures.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.

I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.