Vocal Creativity Quotes

E-40 taught me a long time ago to try different things with my voice, experiment, and only roll with it if it feels right.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

I like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to my voice. The content usually comes after or during that process of just trying to be an instrument.

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Singing in character you can be more of a show off or more modest because it isn't yourself it's a nice way to sing, unusual, a bit like being in musical I guess.