Vocal Quotes - Page 14

• Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Song, Writing, Hammers

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• Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

  Kode9

  Echoes, Space, Track

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Lines, Bass

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• It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

  Christina Aguilera

  Important, Matter, Able

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

  Stephen King

  Real, Drinking, Giving

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• I'm very vocal about my belief that all religion is garbage. Most of my friends are religious or at least spiritual. These are people I like and I know are intelligent. It's this thing that I carry around. I know I'd be a better person if I was fairer, but it's at the core of who I am and what I believe.

  David Cross

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Independent, Style

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Spiritual, Order

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• All those "getting hit/losing rings" sounds tend to be recorded toward the end of a recording session. Depending on the type of game, those efforts and screams can be pretty rough on the voice, so they usually like to record them at the end. You might do hundreds of versions of vocal sounds for a game and you can come out a little hoarse afterward.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Voice, Games, Effort

  Source: www.nintendolife.com

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• Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.

  Jay Sean

  Nice, Hands, Secret

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• I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

  Henry Rollins

  Skills, Singing, Quality

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

  Drew Gooden

  Team, Guy, Roles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

  Ben Folds

  Self, Sound, Records

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha.

  Andrew Bird

  Guitar, Nashville, Lovely

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.

  Mike Ness

  Song, Attitude, Personality

  "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

  Florence Welch

  Choir, Obsessed, Overwhelming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's an absolute blast to be a voice actor, but also kinda scary that the vocal baby you just birthed out at a mic is then taken by other folks and becomes something else.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Baby, Taken, Voice

  "PSLS Interviews Roger Craig Smith – The Man Under the Hood". Interview with Dan Oravasaari, www.playstationlifestyle.net. February 13, 2015.

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• When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Moving, Talking

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

  Hank Williams III

  Country, Rocks, Guitar

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• The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Rights, West, Should

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• I'm pretty vocal about my healthy lifestyle choices. I do try to eat organic, high protein and gluten free.

  Erika Christensen

  Lifestyle Choices, Healthy, Trying

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• I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

  Joanna Newsom

  Voice, People, Track

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Accents, Coaches, Australian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Relax, Vocal Cords, Ifs

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• It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

  Anton Seidl

  Simple, Voice, Phrases

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.103, Parrot Press

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