A Cappella Music Quotes

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

The second we were done on 'The Sing-Off,' we were like, 'All right, now we're competing with Rihanna and Taylor Swift.' We've always set the bar high. We want a hit.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

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

Uh, I think so many things have happened in the mainstream that definitely brought awareness and attention to a cappella. The 'Pitch Perfect' movies, 'The Sing-Off' - I mean, the college a cappella scene definitely has become really hot, which is definitely wonderful.

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

My favorite thing to hear is when people will come up and be like, 'I started an a capella group at my school!' or 'I got my best friend, and we wanted to sing, too!' And then they start groups.

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

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

I usually like listening to music that only have melodies and no lyrics.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.