Dolora Zajick famous quotes

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Believe #Experts #Singers

Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Voice #Imagination #Singing

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Art #Important #Composer

Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind of music. And a lot of that expression comes from a kinesthetic awareness. And it's - that's one thing that I think people identify with, and of course there's the moment that you're in.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Thinking #Expression #People

Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Voice #Singing #Age

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Use #Vowels #Tongue

I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?
-- Dolora Zajick

#Teacher #Simple #Keys

The best way to tell somebody how to figure out how to relax the tongue is to just say, well, notice where it is when you aren't doing anything. That's the relaxed tongue. It's not about putting it somewhere. It's about letting it be where it wants to go.
-- Dolora Zajick

#Relax #Want #Way

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.