Quotes About Vocal

It was really difficult to sing; nobody showed me how to do it. I remember early Screaming Trees shows in the '80s when I'd walk away with a pounding headache from trying to sing way out of my range.

It is a social accent that is virtually the same in all American cities, and it is actually a blend of several accents. There is much more to it than the well-known broad A. Its components are a certain New England flatness, a trace of a Southern drawl, and a surprising touch of the New York City accent that many people consider Brooklynese

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.

I'm a slightly obnoxious person.

My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.

I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.

I love being verbal in films.

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

And it was just in these unaccustomed impulses, evoked in the beings by their instrumental and vocal melodies, that the learned members of that group indicated what they wished to transmit.

Freddy noted that the 'very word "to sing" is the same as "to breathe"'.

Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

Mr. Trump fights back. He doesn't fight back with one retort. He continuously reminds people.

To play the trumpet, you have to use that diaphragm, and it's the same if you want to sing correctly. You really need to push it out from there. And I think that's what has kept me going as a singer.

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.