Quotes About Emotion

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures, and I felt like I was putting together a really good story. But I don't think I was ever really able to stay on that. What I've sort of developed lyrically is more about the sound of the vocals and what they are.

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

I've always loved the sound of female vocals.

The vocals are aggressive not because I want to create an evil voice or anything like that, but because when I sing about angry things that's the way it comes out of me.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

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

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.

Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.