Mark Lanegan Quotes

I don't like to sing loud.

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.

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

We have dance songs and ballad songs, but Baekhyun's voice plays a very important role. That's a really important speciality of Baekhyun.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times, I do choose to and do sing the asthayi and antara in one take, respectively. And I give a few takes until I feel it is perfect.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

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

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.

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.

I think people really like my voice, the way I sing, the things I put in a song.

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 was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.'