Vocal Blend Quotes

I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend.

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

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.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

The sound of the Seekers, that four-part harmony sound, three boys and a girl, is so unlikely, you would not choose those four voices to blend together.

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

Something we're really known for is our signature harmonies, our great melodies - stuff that just makes you feel something and moves you.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

The inspiration for our vocal harmonies was sort of Appalachian. It's sort of at weird intervals, and it almost has an Appalachian kind of feel to it. The harmonies were really spontaneous. And the way we jammed, we would just get into a trance.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.