Quotes & Sayings About A Cappella Singing

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference. — Deke Sharon

You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony. — Deke Sharon

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences. — Deke Sharon

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir. — Mavis Staples

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure. — Chrissie Fit

I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band.
"Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you. — John Green

I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't. — Deke Sharon

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing. — Yoshi Wada