Chris Martin Quotes

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

I think what makes me stand out from the rest is my melodic style combined with my voice, which has a distinct character to it.

Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.

The human voice is one of the most attractive things.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I've got that nice raspy sound.

Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

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

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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

When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.