Lia Ices Quotes

I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

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.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

Singing is incredibly physical.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

My voice is an instrument.

I love hard singing.

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.

You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

I use my voice as an instrument.

Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

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

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

Voice is my instrument.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

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

Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I'd try and sing like Howlin' Wolf. It was like a bark; there was melody to it - but I would go off a bit and I wouldn't stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn't tell you about harmonies. I couldn't tell about what notes I'm singing because nobody taught me to sing.

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