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When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music. -- Isaac Hecker
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound. -- Arca
I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively. -- Donna Leon
A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence. -- James Blake
I actually studied Indian classical vocal music. -- Jill Stein
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. -- George Crumb
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. -- Lisa Hannigan
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
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
I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health. -- Kaskade
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
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 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
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. -- Eugenio Montale
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment. -- Yanni
When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis. -- Wynter Gordon
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. -- Victoria Legrand
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please. -- Tom Scholz
It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last thing I do. I record the entire track, and then I worry about lyrics and vocals. The music will suggest where the words are going to a certain extent. -- Todd Rundgren
What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend. -- Mike Love
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
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. -- Eric Whitacre
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. -- William Wordsworth
I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major. -- Jean Grae
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent. -- Christopher John Farley
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. -- Steve Vai
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. -- Bucky Pope

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