Quotable Tony

The Many Choir Quotes of Tony Lechner…(I probably missed quite a few…)

10/18/2012	If you're clappily challenged, you don't have to do it.
4/25/2013	don't give everything you have and then die slowly
6/13/2013	Dial it up to somewhere between Barry Gibb and Robert Plant.
6/16/2013	It's a rare sighting a bass! Let's be really nice and hope he stays.
6/16/2013	Lets segregate the bass. We don't want him feeling like he's part of the group. Don't wanna set a precedent
6/27/2013	Ah, that's the little known Italian jellyfish symbol.
7/1/2013	wanna open that door? you have to kick it open. You have to kick it like you're the Feds kicking down a door.
7/7/2013	It's gotta sound like you just don't care and it's gotta sound like you mean business.
7/7/2013	We don't sing notes , we sing music
7/7/2013	Remember it's laid back, so the thing has to swing. #TonyTalk #ValleyRockChoir #CrazyLittleThingCalledLove
7/7/2013	It's pretty loosely pitched. Well, no it's not loosely pitched. It's pretty tightly pitched.
7/7/2013	You sound tranquilized. Don't sound like a brain dead zombie-cult.
7/11/2013	It's low, it's not for the faint of lowness.
7/11/2013	Now that you can do it, don't do it!
7/11/2013	The chord really jumps out, gets you right between the eyes, like Captain Marvel.
7/22/2013	I'm trying to keep a nice little windshield wiper thing going.
7/22/2013	Tin it up! Trademark!
7/25/2013	I know for some of you this is just a summer fling. I'm not gonna beg. I've got my pride
7/25/2013	The first notes of the song have to be HUGE. Great Huge Chords...of notes
7/26/2013	We're so popular we have to advertise the wrong time just in case we sell out.
7/26/2013	Art Steele: amplifying awesomeness since aught five.
7/26/2013	You're kinda like split the diff; that's my rap name by the way.
7/26/2013	Everybody's got something to do except for me and my monkey.
7/26/2013	I think you have a defective bell -Kate Pawul
7/27/2013	Sometimes I just start yelling in German ...because that's the only way to speak German
7/28/2013	You can't say baahh-sicle because that's like a sheep on a Popsicle OR like a sheep on a bicycle
9/5/2013	Let's try to sound like not-chipmunks
9/5/2013	You can be freakishly forcefully forceful
9/5/2013	You can sing it more better
9/5/2013	You should sound like you're bored or in a cult...if you're doing it right
9/5/2013	Less Captain Hook
9/27/2013	Whenever I hear a good choir, I immediately need to root through my briefcase
9/27/2013	Try not to breathe when the person next to you breathes
10/3/2013	Damn I should've recorded that
10/3/2013	It should sound unnaturally awkward if you're doing it right
10/3/2013	Yes! Singing on an r! It's never been done before! (And should never be done again...)
10/10/2013	What's that little part we screwed up? Pages one through six?
10/10/2013	you're just doing "ba ba bop bop bop bop where the hell am I ?"
10/10/2013	The first time you do it, it's like "Wahh, what just happened?!?"
10/10/2013	I should record this! Oh wait, I am recording it!
10/17/2013	That was surprisingly good
10/17/2013	You should be driving towards unconscious grotesques
10/17/2013	Seal tribute!
10/17/2013	That wasn't that hard, it sings itself!
10/17/2013	I gotta know how you perform when people are staring at you.
10/24/2013	For every baa you hold, it's gotta be psychotic looking, or at least psychotic feeling
11/7/2013	Has anyone heard a musical saw? It's like a soprano singing no words at all
11/7/2013	Musical thieves , sneaking in at night
11/7/2013	There's one thermostat. Once it's on, it's on for two hours,&there's no way to mess w/ it without invoking religious wrath
11/7/2013	It should be a drone, like bagpipes. Gentle bagpipes. Monks. Monks who play bagpipes.
11/14/2013	It needs to be like you just had your jaw wired and you're learning how to sing.
11/14/2013	It worked! The wall of sound knocked out the sopranos!
11/14/2013	Remember! Bright happy psychotic zombie baaah's
11/14/2013	Go past Steven Tyler and go all the way to Robert Plant.
11/14/2013	First person to mess up gets tased (Or recorded, I don't know which is worse)
1/15/2014	It won't sound psychotic if we all sing it together
2/6/2014	I believe the technical term is flippy thingy.
2/6/2014	We've got a bunch of guys in Brattleboro who are rockin the low d's...
2/6/2014	You actually do do the doo-doo!
2/6/2014	Now if everyone can sing like you have a cold and you're British we'll sound just like The Kinks!
2/27/2014	Sorry tenors. Whatever I just did to help you, that’s the opposite of what you do.
3/6/2014	This is not beginner clapping. This is advanced.
3/13/2014	If you sing along with the radio, you probably don’t choose those notes...
3/13/2014	The choir that blends together...something together.
3/13/2014	Ray Davies’ cold-infused voice...
3/13/2014	Sopranos get the really satisfying end. That’s no longer for you, Altos. That door is closed. You’ve chosen a different path.
3/20/2014	This is not a choir song, it’s an a-choired taste.
3/20/2014	One does not simply teach a choir to sing a Kings X song...
3/20/2014	Stagger the breathing so you don’t all die at once.
3/20/2014	Much better with the “oh yeah”, very Kool-Aid Man. That’s very sexist. It should be Kool-Aid Person. Anyone can grow up to be Kool-Aid!
3/20/2014	This makes “Wrapped In Grey” look like a top-40 hit...
3/20/2014	Basses, use your power for good!
3/20/2014	Brave people will have to volunteer to clap.
3/30/2014	First rule of following me: Never do what I do.
3/30/2014	I have no idea what the tenors do...
3/30/2014	Cue all the parts? What do I look like, a choir director?
3/30/2014	I don’t have time to get into the bah-ya-ya meanings.
3/30/2014	Let’s start at letter ten.
3/30/2014	I want you all to burn your music right now! 1-2-3 GO!
4/4/2014	You have to mean what you’re saying...which means you have to KNOW THE WORDS...
4/4/2014	Rock & Roll is not to be conducted!
4/4/2014	Dinosaurs are terrible with diphthongs
4/4/2014	Letter H, for HUSH
4/4/2014	More doomba doomba!
4/4/2014	What are you on Basses?
4/4/2014	That’s AHHHHH-some!
4/4/2014	It’s gotta be exaggerated. Like, to the point of “AHHHH! WHAT’S HAPPENING?!?”
4/18/2013	The children! It’s all about the children! Won’t someone PLEASE not think of the children?!?
4/18/2013	Designated Clapper. The DC.
4/18/2013	raise your hand if you’re clappily challenged..
4/18/2013	I don’t know how we’re gonna end it...I’ll figure it out...soon...
4/18/2013	“Uh” is a dangerous vowel
4/18/2013	Raise your gauntlet of rock! Channel your angst into every note!