It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.
I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.
I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.
Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
