Kevin Olusola Quotes

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be at the forefront to show it's its own art form and just a different way to have a band. Only we just use our voices.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

We always try to make every song we do sound like a track. It's vocal, but we want it to be really full so no one really can even know if it's a cappella. It's not like it's missing anything, per se.

I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

I used to sing SWV's 'Weak' every day when people would ask me to sing.

I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.

I have always loved singing.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

Only the Punjabi music industry has stood the test of time. Bollywood has finished the regional music industry of other languages, but the Punjabi music scene is still flourishing.

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that into folk music in terms of arrangements and stuff.

I will say, all the Barden Bellas are hot.

We sing popular songs and show it can be done a cappella. It's fun music.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.