Quotes About Vocal

I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then finally singing.

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

I've never done any vocal warm ups, ever. As a matter of fact, I learned to sing playing three sets a night in smoky clubs.

I look after my voice and I warm up... I tend to do it in the car, which must look a little strange!

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.

Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.

Holiday Shores' ambition far exceeds its members' recording budget. The band's boyish vocal harmonies wash in and out with the tide, and reverb radiates from the guitars like heat off a sun-baked parking lot.

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.

I was an alto and was in a lot of choirs growing up.

All my voice training comes from choir and small ensemble singing.

I like to keep my voice going. I don't want it to lose its chops. You know, as you age, it's easier for you to lose it.

And in the Premier League the support was fantastic, home and away, sellout stadiums win, lose or draw. The supporters were in full voice and that's a massive credit to them.

And, of course, philosophy attracted exactly the wrong kind of girls for Bob – earnest intellectual ones, for example, who wanted to discuss Foucault and Adorno and other people Bob had tried very hard not to hear of. If Bob could have designed a girl he would have started by getting rid of her vocal cords.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.