Melodic Interpretation Quotes

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.

I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

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

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.