Vocal Modulation Quotes

If you listen to the old Rock I always had one tone of rapping, but now I'm learning how to stretch out my voice and use it in different ways.

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

Maybe I should try singing like a man.

The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

Your knowledge remains limited if you just listen to your songs but you grow as a singer when you listen to other singers' work - their style, accent and modulation. You end up absorbing new things.

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

It was this thing I used to do, where I would get on the phone and put my voice in a man's voice like, 'Hey, you're talking to Tom.'

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.