Shamir Quotes

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

I love hard singing.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

I use my voice as an instrument.

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

I was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.