When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.