Vocal Enhancement Quotes

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.

Yes, because as composers we are looking for textured voices, and often the singers we find are not trained to perform in a studio environment. So we need technology to doctor their voices to suit the format.

When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

Dubbing really uplifts your character.

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.

I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.

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.

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.

My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated - but then, also, it hasn't.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

We use the immense possibilities of technology to make the rendering better; anyone can be a singer now!

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.