Quotes About Vocal

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

Anybody who knows me knows I'm a handful, I'm aggressive, I'm loud, I'm obnoxious.

It was, he knew, their isolation that had made them so vocal. They thrived in the grandeur of their rage. Yet, underneath their masks they were riddled with self doubt. He could sense the fear behind the clenched jaw.

Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.

The sense of differentiation is so acute in Yiddish that a word like, say, paskudnyak has no peer in any language I know for the vocal delineation of a nasty character. And Yiddish coins new names with ease for new personality types: a nudnik is a pest; a phudnik is a nudnik with a Ph.D.

I'd say that Ray Charles is definitely the biggest influence on my singing. Also Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.

I don't really strain my voice.

If I do get offended, you'll probably know about it because I'm very honest and I don't hold back when it comes to speaking my mind.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

I was always opinionated.

I'm very opinionated.

I was naturally opinionated.

I'm a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it.

I have strong opinions, and I am not afraid to share them.

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

Music, like the visual arts, is rooted in our experience of the natural world," said Schwartz. "It emulates our sound environment in the way that visual arts emulate the visual environment." In music we hear the echo of our basic sound making instrument-the vocal tract. This explanation for human music is simpler still than Pythagoras's mathematical equations: we like the sounds that are familiar to us-specifically, we like sounds that remind us of us.

A clean-shaven man with a vocal tone reminiscent of post-coital whispers, that was Matyas Füst. The way he sings "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is no joke.

We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.