Voice Quotes

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

"God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?"

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

You’re like a gift,” he said, his voice rough. “All wrapped up for someone else. A man can’t look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one.

If you believe you have a voice and something to say, chances are you do, and the world needs you to do whatever you're drawn to do. So you should do it.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

I think the voice can carry a story.

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.

His voice wore no pants.