Steve Lacy Quotes

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.

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

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

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.

My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.

Halsey's so talented and her voice is so strong and it's so addicting.

Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

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.

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.

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.

I'm a huge closet Mariah Carey fan - she's got one of the best voices probably ever.

I wish I had a great singing voice.

I was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

It's not like you have two sets of vocal cords. You only have one, and if you exhaust it from talking, then you're also affecting your singing.

I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.