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“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

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Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

Source: Healology

“Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.”

Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

Poetry Music Vocal Verse

Book:Poetry as Enchantment

Source: Poetry as Enchantment

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.”

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Book:The Danish Girl

Source: The Danish Girl

“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains.”

Love Life God Christian Night Faith Speak Sky Creation Color Mountain Ocean Sunrise Vocal Majesty Vastness

Book:Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall”

Vocal Talk Oblivious Talkers Chatterbox

Book:Harold

Source: Harold

“Your tone sets the tone.”

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Author:Sarah Urist Green

“Betty from down the street was one of those creatures who seemed to be operating under the notion that if she ever stopped talking, even for a second, she'd die.”

Voice Talking Vocal Talk Obnoxious Blabbermouth Blabbermouthed

Book:Residue

Source: Residue

“...you helped make mine joyful again. I’d lost faith in this town. I thought it was filled with people like Lula and Nathan Dugan. But you, Bella, and the Wright boys helped me see that there are plenty of good folks around here. They just haven’t been shouting as loud as the others.”

Hate Vocal Fight Back

Book:Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Source: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

“Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.”

People Way Feels Should Believe Stills Different Audience Media Products Huge Like You Impact Financial One Way Vocal Fickle Financial Services

Author:Max Levchin

“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.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Song Felt Serving Hammers Attempting Vocal Gigs Repetitive Fries Banging

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“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.”

People Voice Theory Harmony Instruments Good Things Track Albums Vocal Tracking

Author:Joanna Newsom

“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.”

Coaches Accents Vocal Australian Sad Things

Author:Anthony LaPaglia

“I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'”

Needs Hard Play Beautiful Computer Vocal

Author:Steve Perry

“If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.”

Ifs Relax Vocal Cords Vocal Cords

Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“We are so vocal about what we hate.”

Hate Vocal

Author:Josh Radnor

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

Speak Voice Simple Particular Fixed Phrases Nonsense Vocal Tempo

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.”

Trying Perfect Producers Vocal Always Trying

Author:K. D. Lang

“A female vocal can lift a song.”

Song Female Lifts Vocal

Author:Jessie Ware

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

Ifs Believe Don't Believe Temporary Vocal Demos

Author:Tom Waits

“My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.””

Hard Stuff Voice Practice Five Minutes Son Band Losing Singers Reasonable Hats My Son Five Minutes Vocal Hats Off Growling

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.”

Thinking Want Certain Voice Powerful Crazy Effects Demand Vocal Electronic Music

Author:Victoria Legrand

“It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.”

People Giving Mind Ideas Feelings Able Song Fun Views Produce Crowds Point Of View Translate Vocal Of My Mind Fruition

Author:Rico Love

“It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.”

Way Bigs Beautiful Party Cutting Huge Studios Woods Vocal Keith

Author:Scotty Moore

“When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.”

Knows Art Poor Becoming Members Art Is Vocal Academia

Author:Derek R. Audette

“For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.”

Ifs Stuff Responsibility Degrees Projects Musical Coaching Vocal

Author:J. Robbins

“It was my dream for years... to train. Dominic [Cooper] went and he's doing alright. But some people don't go and do brilliantly. Although I think there are things I missed from not having trained. I think I'd be more confident on stage had I gone because I think it means you're equipped with better vocal training and things like that.”

People Thinking Years Mean Dream Gone Stage Training Train Vocal Alright

Author:Carey Mulligan

“For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.”

Dying Praise Raises Saint Ill Rage Silver Makers Roof Vocal Piety Misers

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

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

Ifs Whole Enjoy Money Spending More Money Vocal Lied

Author:Martina Navratilova

“The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.”

Grace Phrases Vocal Delivery Agitation Ornamentation

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.”

People Play Character Problem Guy Difficult Interesting Roles Confusing Accused Vocal Interesting Characters

Author:Val Kilmer

“When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.”

Ifs Voice Air Tired Tone Throat Chords Vocal Vary

Author:Alan Ladd

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.”

Ifs Knows Originals Awful Vocal

Author:Kate Bush

“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.”

Want Trying Said Sometimes Hard Song Records Productions Over It Vocal

Author:Sampha

“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.”

Ifs Feels Stills I Can Song Written Beats Rhythm Melody Chords Vocal

Author:David Byrne

“I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.”

Want Wells Ideas Pieces Musician Lists Vocal

Author:Paul van Dyk

“I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.”

People Way Done Moral Critics Contribution Complaints Vocal Being Done Contribution To Society Exhibitionism

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.”

People Way Want Different Sometimes Easy Hours Sleep Tough Chords Vocal

Author:Mariah Carey

“Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.”

“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.”

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Author:KT Tunstall

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