Quotes About Vocal

My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal.

I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs.

Being hydrated is a key thing for a singer, especially if you're spending three hours on stage five nights a week, and wine dehydrates me faster than beer.

For many years, I have been a vocal critic of religion, and I won't ride the same hobbyhorse here. I hope that I have been sufficiently energetic on this front that even my most skeptical readers will trust that my bullshit detector remains well calibrated as we advance over this new terrain.

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I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I am trying to gain as much knowledge as I can about singing.

I'm a globally loud person.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they're not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

I'm glad I got to do 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are both shows that I just don't think I could have the stamina to do them eight times a week. I just have so much respect for the women who do these vocal roles eight times a week. They're so challenging.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

I've always been entranced when it came to musical comedy; it's probably my favorite thing. It's a real true American form, and it's big, like Shakespeare big, when it's right. It's loud, and it's big: you have to be ready vocally and physically. It can bring people to their feet and can be as thrilling as a circus.

I work a lot with dynamics of how loud I'm talking, like speaking into balloons and then feeling the texture on my fingertips, and then I get used to the feeling on my throat.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.