Top 791 Vocal Quotes & Sayings

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.

I've had cysts on my vocal chords.

Other presidents behind the scenes mutter epithets about the media. Donald Trump calls us the lowest form of human life to our face. Other presidents tried their best to go around the media that they don't think are expressing their views. President Trump just is - is just very, very vocal about that and much more - spends much more time being vocal about that.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

A female vocal can lift a song.

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

And Ive had vocal training on and off for years.

I have to learn how to be more vocal. I'm not good at that and I have to improve.

I never took any vocal training

Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

I'm more vocal about my ideas in person and music.

In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

You need the point guard to be vocal.

I try and be super vocal on the field because that's what we need, and that's what I want to do.

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don't have to labor too hard over them. I'll sing a lead vocal, and then I will immediately have all of these other ideas for vocal harmonies. I think that some of the most fun parts of recording, for me, are the vocal harmonies.

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."

Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.

Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodies and lyrics. Plus, for me, I can better express my musical ideas through instrumental music than vocal music, the emotional interpretation of which can easily supersede the actual musical content or aim.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

We are so vocal about what we hate.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

The millennial generation is very vocal.

I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

I'm one of those guys who, when I'm frustrated, do not get vocal.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

I never took any vocal training.

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

It's important to be vocal, and to be fair, I've always had that in me, to be honest. One of the things my dad has always said to me is make sure you're vocal, and before the game, I always get a text off him telling me to do the things well and again, 'Be vocal, Dec.'

At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.

I'm a laid-back dude, period, but I can be vocal, if need be.

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

I was born with a cyst on my vocal cords.

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

I am vocal and I have had to pay a huge price for that.

I'm not a huge vocal guy.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.