Quotes About Vocals

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

I simply admire Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar.

I love singing all types of genres.

In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.

If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

Usually, if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something, I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape, I will sing Jean Valjean's soliloquy from 'Les Miz' or something.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.