Neha Kakkar Quotes

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.

I feel like the falsetto is my niche and my sound and something different.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

Working with other artists and writers over the past couple years has really given me a clear idea of my strengths and weaknesses and what is unique about me as an artist. I figured it's my storytelling lyrics, falsetto range and tone of voice, so I write songs to utilize those.

Steve Vai had a unique style of playing. Steve Vai didn't sound like anyone else: Steve Vai sounded like Steve Vai.

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

Peforming as James Brown, I didn't really have to go deep in my soul the way I do as Charles Bradley.

I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.

I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.