Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.

I can't even remember the first time I started singing.

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.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

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

We had a nine-piece choir on 'Aw Yeah.'

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

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

I always enjoyed singing but I was never convinced that I had a big voice like that, that was distinctive, I just thought I can sing in the choir.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

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

I can play multiple instruments. I love a cappella. I love barbershop. I love magic.

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

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.

We were the choir nerds.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

My father would make me stand on the table and make me sing. He would give me a P1 reward after every song.