Always Quote by Roy Orbison

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

— Renee Fleming

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my…

— Sarah Blasko

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

— Florence Welch

I would do these performances around town at different places, and that's when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this…

— Ally Brooke

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.

— Melanie Martinez

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity…

— Stanley Clarke

I still believe that the voice as well as the body express a song together - that's my philosophy of performing a song.

— Neeti Mohan

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions…

— Ronnie Montrose

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the…

— Brian McKnight