Vocal Quotes

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  The only thing better than singing is more singing.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Birthday, Music

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• I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Money, Lied, Spending

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• 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.

  Johnny Winter

  Two, Blue, People

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

  Colin Firth

  Expectations, Musical, News

  "Respectable showing for British actors as ex-spouses square up for Oscar glory" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 02, 2010.

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• If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me.

  CM Punk

  Thinking, Spots, Right Now

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

  Robert Wyatt

  Quality, Instruments

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Education, Courage, Wings

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• Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
  And there be words not made with lungs.

  Richard Crashaw

  Inspirational, Eye, Tears

  "Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Opera

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

  Tom Waits

  Believe, Demos, Temporary

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.

  Laura Benanti

  Writing, Rocks, Quality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

  James Lane Allen

  Stars, Wall, Flower

  "A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works".

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• Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct organizations.

  Peter Friedman

  Organization, Climate, Would Be

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• Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.

  Stuart Hill

  Pain, Moving, Glasses

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.

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• My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wild And Free, Vocal Cords, Cords

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Black, Twenties

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• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Thinking, Attachment

  Virginia Woolf (1937). “To the Lighthouse”

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• People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.

  Andreï Makine

  Rain, Talking, Weather

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• I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

  John Oliver

  Expression, Horror, Range

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• The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Sound, Elements

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• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  Neil Young

  Water, Gold, Records

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• The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Mind, Identity

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

  Dionne Warwick

  Trying, Helping, Vocal Cords

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• In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

  Warren Buffett

  Numbers, People, Important

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• The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

  Frank Beddor

  Voice, Iron, Important

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