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But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals. -- Lita Ford
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. -- Eddie Vedder
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on. -- Robert Smith
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs. -- Zakk Wylde
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
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water. -- Neil Young
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it. -- Jeremy Spencer
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
When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake. -- Dave Grohl
I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. -- Oscar Isaac
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. -- Grimes
But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments. -- Kevin Richardson
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound. -- Brian Wilson
I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer. -- Robbie Williams
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun. -- Lorde
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals. -- David Nail
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. -- Brian Molko
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' -- Bruce Dickinson
As far as favorite 'overall package' record of all time, I'd have to say 'My Girl' by The Temptations. I like everything about it, not only the composition - but the arrangement, the production, the lead vocals, the background vocals, the horns, the strings. That one I listen to over and over again. -- Paul Shaffer
Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.' -- Tiesto
I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. -- Skrillex
Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things. -- Common
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
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
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. -- Damian Marley
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
You want to hear vocals? Go sing it. -- James Hetfield
The only rumors worth listening to have Stevie Nicks on vocals. -- Chris Jericho
The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song. -- Jerry Harrison
When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off... -- Gustav Ejstes
The leaderâ??s (Jeff Densonâ??s) superb bowing.. showcasing Densonâ??s haunting vocals -- Bill Milkowski
Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals. -- Michael Azerrad
But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals -- Lita Ford
I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals. -- Florence Welch
For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right. -- Jerry Harrison
I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics. -- Tessanne Chin
Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard. -- Bob Seger
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. -- Babyface
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. -- Aaron Carter
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. -- Dee Dee Ramone
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. -- Lisa Hannigan
I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals. -- Neneh Cherry
When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well. -- Marnie Stern
I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything. -- Tove Lo
After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams. -- Zach Condon
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. -- Lykke Li
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
Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb. -- Stephin Merritt
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
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. -- Jamie Wyeth
For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff. -- J. Robbins
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
The boarders have changed. My vocals explore different elements and you know it was really important for me to transfer the atmosphere of the songs with my voice. -- Heather Nova
Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals! -- Billy Bush
All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools. -- David Coverdale
No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words. -- Patty Schemel
The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last. -- Hank Williams III
Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination. -- Benjamin Booker
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. -- Kate Bush
I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things. -- Spencer Krug
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. -- Alan Price
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

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