Auditory Feedback Quotes

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.

I work a lot with dynamics of how loud I'm talking, like speaking into balloons and then feeling the texture on my fingertips, and then I get used to the feeling on my throat.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

When it comes to vibrato, a lot of people look at their hands when they do it. Which is pretty much of no use. Because vibrato is one of those things you have to hear. There are some guitar things where the visual is really useful, like seeing chord shapes or scale patterns. But vibrato isn't one of those things.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

I don't enjoy the sound of my voice in front of other people.