Vocals Quotes - page 2

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. (Lisa Loeb)
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it. View quote
Jeremy Spencer
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. View quote
Lisa Hannigan
As far as favorite 'overall package' record of all time, I'd have to say 'My Girl' by The Temptations. I like everything about it, not only the composition - but the arrangement, the production, the lead vocals, the background vocals, the horns, the strings. That one I listen to over and over again. View quote
Paul Shaffer
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. View quote
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. View quote
Scotty Moore
I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics. View quote
Tessanne Chin
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. View quote
Dave Grohl
French for "Games without frontiers" (background vocals throughout the song, sung by Kate Bush) View quote
Peter Gabriel
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song. View quote
Peter Gabriel
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. (Skrillex)
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.' View quote
Bruce Dickinson
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. View quote
Eddie Vedder
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. View quote
Brian Molko
Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard. View quote
Bob Seger
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir. View quote
Greg Graffin
...but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia. View quote
Piero Scaruffi
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
We did a song for Johnny Cash, we recorded it with Rick Rubin and everything and all that was missing was his vocals. He was going to fly out to LA the week after he died. It's really sad. 2003 source source. View quote
Chris Martin
As an artist, I don't like being able to be seen...If you're having difficulty getting a part, it adds to the tension when the assistant engineer, engineer, producer and producer's wife are hanging out. With the School-house, my engineer's in the control room, and I could be doing vocals while stretching my T-shirt over my head and it wouldn't matter. Everyone who's worked here has gotten used to this nonvisual communication and actually found it to be advantageous. That's what home studios are about - that funky thing. View quote
Dan Hartman
Little Richard - he was the first one that really got to me. Little Richard and, of course, Elvis Presley. I don't know if it was because of James Brown and Little Richard, I always preferred a high energy vocal, a hard full-force vocal. I liked Little Richard better than Elvis, and I liked James Brown better than the Beatles...but the Miracles were a heavy influence on me, too...[though] I always preferred the more energized vocals. (Little Richard)
Come the recording day, a group of male choristers, more accustomed to singing church services than backing vocals, descended on Bush's home, which was equipped with its own studio. Doubtless they were imagining that they were about to meet a wild-eyed rock babe, but Kate, quiet and unassuming - the kind of sympathetic, slightly shy girl who greets you from behind the counter at the local chemist - introduced us to her friend the bass player Del Palmer, who engineered the session. None of the singers or Richard had ever gone over and over four or five phrases so exactingly. No measure of Bach or Mozart had, in their experience, been subjected to such surgical scrutiny, and I began to worry that their voices might begin to tire. But Bush knew and got what she wanted and "Hello Earth" is, I think, a remarkable track on the album that finally broke the American market and established her as an iconic and hugely influential figure. I can't wait to hear what she has been up to now. View quote
Kate Bush