Sarah Brightman Quotes

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

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

We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

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

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

I love to sing with great singers.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.