Arnel Pineda Quotes

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

I love hard singing.

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 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.

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.

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

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

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

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

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

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

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

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

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

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

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'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.

If I could sing like a Chaka Khan, an Aretha, a Kim Burrell, if I could do all these amazing runs and belt it out, I would. I've attempted that, and it's not something anyone would want to hear.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

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.'

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