Vocalist Quotes

Whenever I get dumped (by a girlfriend), I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it`s like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you`re Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs.

We`ve got the slowest 311 song ever, called `Solar Flare,` which is a scathing political rap that (vocalist) S.A. (Martinez) puts over a really slow, heavy thing, ... And then there`s also a really fast one called `It`s Getting OK Now,` which is (guitarist) Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell (Abbott of Pantera).

Whenever I get dumped (by a girlfriend), I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it`s like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you`re Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs.

an amazing vocalist and a ridiculous songwriter.

It`s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

commands one of the biggest vocabularies of all the musicians I`ve encountered. What she can do with her voice is beyond belief. It`s like this amazing natural resource: she has the capability of making her voice like one of the instruments we play, and also of being the quintessential vocalist. And she can move between these modes quite naturally.

Five years ago, boy bands could get away with having one good vocalist and four good looking guys. Nowadays, it`s not about that. It`s a lot more about the music, the sound. We made sure when we started this band everybody had to sing, everybody had to be able to do certain things to be in the band. Everybody had to really, really want what we`re doing today.

I`ve often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I`ve always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

It`s really exciting to have something new out there for people to listen to. I wanted to make a record that represented me as a person. And I think I`ve improved as a vocalist.

`We Gonna Win` is a song of triumph, ... It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It`s a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn`t accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.