Quotes About Expression

Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar lessons, and piano lessons.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Fans in Madison Square Garden are a little bit hipper, but they are more vocal. It's like, 'Hey, you work for me, bro. I bought this ticket. Now get out there and entertain me.'

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

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

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.

I have never been vocal about my singing abilities, but I am always ready to present my dancing skills.

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

A female vocal can lift a song.