Gregory Porter Quotes

I don't know a high C from a low C.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

If I can talk, I can sing.

My voice is an instrument.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Voice is my instrument.

I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.

You are an instrument if you understand your voice and how to use it - this sound, that sound and certain ranges and different pitch. Within that I try to find a rhythm and play the voice as if it was a horn.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.

The human voice is one of the most attractive things.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.