Vocal Intensity Quotes

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

I like that Metallica has found a way to have these non-pedestrian arrangements but then the vocal melody is strong and intense. I've always appreciated that as a fan.

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

I love hard singing.

The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been brutal.

He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

The thing about Auto-Tune is it can't fix everyone. It only fixes pitch. Everything else - the emotion and the attack and the energy? That's what a singer is.

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.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

I was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

David Phelps has an uncanny ability to sound full and powerful on every part of his range and sing with so much emotion.

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.

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

'Crash' is the hardest song I've ever sang in my whole life. It's the lowest in my vocal register and the highest in my register, all within 15 seconds.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

A female vocal can lift a song.

I guess I'm not really into female vocals that sound masculine, I guess. A lot of times, the heavy female vocalists always end up sounding like they're screaming or whatever.