Quotes About Vocal

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists - you can see they're compromising in their mind. You see that look when they're listening to a vocal take and there's hesitation. And I'll be like, 'Are you sure you don't want to do this again?'

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.

I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.

In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.

The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.

It's so important to me to take care of my voice. I do a lot of vocal warms-ups right before I go on.

We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

All my vocal coaches have been pretty great. Thank God.

I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.

I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical prowess.

People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.

I started my career at 'Star Trek,' and that had a huge, very vocal fan base.

The Brewers Association, a trade group of some 2000 small and independent brewers, was founded in 2005 to be a 'passionate voice for craft brewers' and craft beer, and it has made itself as vocal as the bigger Beer Institute.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.