Auli'i Cravalho Quotes

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Singing is my first love.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

I love hard singing.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

Voice is the first instrument.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.