Vocal Quotes

You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. View quote
William Wordsworth
I do a lot of vocal hygiene. View quote
Lesley Garrett
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. View quote
Vaughn Monroe
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. View quote
David Brin
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. View quote
William Faulkner
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. View quote
Davey Havok
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. View quote
Hillary Clinton
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned-could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change. View quote
Leo Strauss
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. View quote
Eugenio Montale
Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story. (Charles Swindoll)
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. View quote
Alan Ladd
If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better. View quote
Alfonso Ribeiro
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. View quote
Alma Gluck
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. View quote
Anton Seidl
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud. View quote
Christina Milian
I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit. View quote
Daryl Hall
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. View quote
Glenn Danzig
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations. View quote
Glenn Tipton
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. View quote
Graham Nash
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. (George Crumb)
I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style. View quote
Julie London
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. View quote
Kiri Te Kanawa
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. View quote
Mark Mobius
People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing. View quote
Michael Franks