Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
I’ve been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it’s a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they’re some of my closest friends.
If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.
As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you’re singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement – for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.
Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
I can sample Blink-182 but put an African vocal sample in there.
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.
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
I’ve always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I’ve been doing it for so many years.
The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It’s not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
I immediately recognised that Freddy’s vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine – or vice-versa, I guess – and yeah, the rest is history.
I try and be very vocal. You know, talking to people and getting on guys. I try to help guys get in the right position whether it be on offense or defense.
I feel like mental health is not something people are vocal enough about, but it’s something that everyone struggles with.
Just every day try to be a leader, try to get better and to help my team win. I just want to be more vocal, like talk more so my teammates can know I got their back.
If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies… absolutely everything, really.
‘I Remember’ was produced before the vocal. It’s just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
It’s important to be vocal, and to be fair, I’ve always had that in me, to be honest. One of the things my dad has always said to me is make sure you’re vocal, and before the game, I always get a text off him telling me to do the things well and again, ‘Be vocal, Dec.’
I think I’ve learned a lot on the vocal side of things.
I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them – if there’s some redness, maybe I’ll take a little time off.
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I’d have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn’t enjoy spending it.
I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations… I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea.
I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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.
Holiday Shores’ ambition far exceeds its members’ recording budget. The band’s boyish vocal harmonies wash in and out with the tide, and reverb radiates from the guitars like heat off a sun-baked parking lot.
It’s funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked ‘Doctor Who,’ I didn’t realize how deep the fan base was.
In my opinion the fans here in the United Kingdom are much more vocal and passionate than WWE fans in the United States.
My vocal ability is very limited, but I’m fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for ‘looking both ways’ and ‘knowing the size of one’s own body.’ But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
I’m always vocal about people being unique and different in hip-hop.
Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.
I discovered later in life that there’s not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.
I feel like I’ve always believed what I believed. I’ve just become more vocal about it.
I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that’s pretty much it.
I do most of my vocals – aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don’t do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.
I’m probably going to be more of a vocal leader, which is a challenge for me with English not being my natural language.
My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is ‘Fermi Paradox,’ it’s the song before ‘Exist.’ To me it’s got the coolest, it’s just so bizarre because it’s got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.
Some days, I don’t recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, ‘There’s my country.’
I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.
I’ve always been pretty vocal to my teammates. I’m really positive and optimistic. Positive enforcement – I feel like throwing that energy into the air is big.
I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.
I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they’re dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I’ll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Shareholder activism is not a privilege – it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.
In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it’s encouraged.
And I’ve had vocal training on and off for years.
On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.
‘Teenage Wildlife’ is just epic. It’s, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I’m like, ‘Who’s singing?’ You’re giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It’s up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
You need the point guard to be vocal.
If you ask me about vocal technique, I don’t know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: ‘Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano – no.’
David Bowie has always been my vocal inspiration ever since I was a child.
Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual – but I enjoyed it.
I can’t hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.
I was never a protestor, don’t get me wrong, I was never like a vocal… what was the line I used to repeat to myself?… I was a nonconformist in a conforming society, that’s what I thought about myself back in the ’70s.
