Quotes About Resilience

I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it's only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn't figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.

I've learnt there's nothing you can't do. I danced, for instance. I am not as reserved as I used to be. I've been on the reserved side since I was growing up perhaps because I was an only child, but that changed. I am way more confident. I'm more expressive and vocal.

I was born with a cyst on my vocal cords.

I don't have any godfather, I had to continuously prove myself as a vocalist to survive in the music scene.

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

A few girls would be catty and say that my voice sounded really high, and I sang like a chipmunk, I got a few prank calls about that a few times. But it didn't really bother me that much. I think I was so focused on music that nothing could break me or get in my way.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

My voice is stronger today than ever.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

What I look for in a partner is a skill, a voice of their own so I have a strength to go up against. They definitely have to be able to get out of their own way. I can't take somebody being precious about their work.

High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.