Vocal Articulation Quotes

I have a very nice voice.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.'

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

The only thing wrong with my voice is the way it sounds.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

I always try to get to the point where I can do different things with my voice.

My voice is not very dynamic.

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

My voice is not angel voice.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you're learning a good way to sing technically, you find it's very easy to sing well.

The American accent is a little bit tricky. We grew up with American TV shows, so we've had a lot of exposure to it and that helps, but there's little nuances and little details. Sometimes there'll be just a phrase or couple words that are really difficult to get your mouth around. At the end of every season we go over and revoice anything that has sound issues, including my kiwi accent coming out.

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.