Levon Helm Quotes

What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you're singing.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

I sing like a lark.

I've got that nice raspy sound.

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

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.

I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.

I can't hold a tune at all.

When I was in grade school, I remember singing in a chorus where they actually had two parts going. It was very easy for me to pick out the harmonies, and I kind of just went with it.

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

I actually do sing sometimes.

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing.