Susanna Hoffs Quotes

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

We sing popular songs and show it can be done a cappella. It's fun music.

When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

I love to sing with great singers.

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

We did an a cappella version, which I have always wanted to do, of the "Coventry Carol." It's beautiful, and we did it in three part harmony with no accompaniment. We have two a cappella songs that, in my opinion, are just gorgeous.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I love to sing with different people.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

I've always been a good ensemble player.