Quotes About Vocal

I think with any challenge or any matchup, I can have my own personal feelings of what I want, but it really all depends on our audience. Our job is to give them the best entertainment that we feel is right. If it's something that they want to see, they'll be loud and vocal about it, and we'll do it.

In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.

I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I've always cared about my teammates, but it's about being vocal and letting them know I care about them... not just on the basketball court.

It doesn't matter how you're playing: you've got to be vocal - you've got to be aggressive - if you really want to be one of the best in this league.

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

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.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

A female vocal can lift a song.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.