An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
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.
People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.
I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.
Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.