Vocals Quotes

• Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Stuff
  • Tracks
  • Vocals

• I loved Celine Dion. I loved Whitney Houston and these big powerhouse vocals.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Loved
  • Big
  • Vocals

• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you're normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.

  

  Amber Giles
  • Comfortable
  • Vocals
  • Spectrum

• It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

  

  Rico Love
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Produce

• I do guest vocals all the time.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Time
  • Guest
  • Vocals

• All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Records
  • Mainstream
  • Vocals

• We were in the car listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Keith was saying how he'd love to do some vocals on a tune, and then two weeks later there he was on 'Firestarter'. As soon as I heard the lyrics I knew it was an explanation of himself, totally Keith. It was another element, it seriously enhances the live show.

  

  Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy
  • Show
  • Tune
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

• My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Inspiration
  • Vocals

• I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Inspired

• My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Sign
  • Drum
  • Vocals

• You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Fingers
  • Vocals
  • Bath

• I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Songwriting
  • Melodies
  • Ukulele

• Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Happy
  • Band
  • Movement

• I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Fans
  • Good Time
  • Vocals

• After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Fear
  • Drums

• 'Firestarter' was like that. Keith heard the track as an instrumental and thought it was wicked and said he couldn't wait to dance to it on stage. He sat down there for a while and then said 'I would love to put some vocals on this'. We put the actual words down in a London studio, and I can't explain the feeling me and Keith got that night, driving home listening to the tape, playing it over and over again. I knew then it was something original, that I had achieved something.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Track
  • Original
  • Keith

• When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
  • Voice
  • Sounds
  • melodic

• I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Obsessed
  • Choirs

• The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals.

  

  Bill Milkowski
  • Leader
  • Vocals
  • Haunting

• I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Music
  • Level
  • Vocals

• Did you ever notice how friendships are a lot like pop songs? They are for girls, anyway. First there's the newness of it, the melody that streams into your head and makes you wonder ― will I like this song? Then come the vocals, what the song's heart truly sounds like, and with it the song's purpose, it's lyrics ― will they say something meaningful about my life? Will these words help me through a difficult time, or create a memory that will make me smile whenever I hear this song again?

  

  Brando Skyhorse
  • Wonder
  • Memory
  • Friendships

• There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Musicians
  • Conviction
  • Vocals

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