Quotes About Harmony

It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

Actually, if you listen to the vocals on my grandfather's records, you will hear we sound similar. We both sound kind of dry. We have a dry voice, and we both love harmony - he was a man of harmony, I'm a man of harmony. I think it just runs in our blood.

I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that into folk music in terms of arrangements and stuff.

I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.

I do guest vocals all the time.

I've always loved the sound of female vocals.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

Bob was chosen by my record company to help with my vocals, and our relationship developed through the music.

I dont think anything we've ever done has ever sounded the same. But we have that same vibe whatever we do because of our vocals.

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

I recognized a lot of Vogue in me and vice versa. We fit, we were very compatible together - even my mum thinks we're similar!

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited to put the two together.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.