Vocal Quotes - Page 11

• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Voice

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

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• When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Fake, Sound

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• There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

  John Britt Daniel

  Way, Sometimes, Really Great

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

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• After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

  Zach Condon

  Years, Voice, Generations

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Different

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2010.

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• All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Records, My Favorite, Mainstream

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

  Joan Baez

  Struggle, Fighting, Voice

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

  Joan Baez

  Voice, Guy, Sound

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Believe, Grateful, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Cat, Artist, Soul

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

  Erica Schroeder

  Talking, Generations, Trends

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Laughing, Quality, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

  Ella Henderson

  Stupid, Dolphins, Sirens

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• The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our own song choices. At the end of the day, it's still a vocal competition show and you want to sing the song that showcases your voice the best.

  Curtis Grimes

  Song, Artist, Voice

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• When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

  Marnie Stern

  Guitar, Insane, Wells

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.

  Cholly Atkins

  Giving, Dancer, Looks

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• In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

  Etgar Keret

  War, Views, Wings

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.

  Cholly Atkins

  Style, Groups, Looks

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• I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

  M. Ward

  Song, Matter, Matching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

  Flume

  Song, Nice, Unique

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.

  Ella Henderson

  Self, Empowering, Sound

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• I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

  David Cook

  Song, Believe, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Strong, Guitar, Brain

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