Kay Cannon Quotes

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

I've always loved to sing.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

Singing is a gift.

We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.

I love singing. I just love it.

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

Singing is my first love.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

After you've practiced for an hour or so, turn down the lights and record yourself playing. Improvise and go nuts, then playback what you've recorded and listen for your strengths and weaknesses.

Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

'The X Factor' has brought so much joy to so many people.