Quotes About Inspiration

I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly.

I'm a curvy, ethnic girl and I'm shooting with 'Vogue.' I want people to see and feel like, 'If Jordyn can do it, I can do it too.'

But I was always just having fun and out and about and working, doing whatever. But when I met Vogue is when something went off in my mind and I became a far more serious person. She makes me a much better version of myself.

When I met Melania Knauss in 2003, we were both 32 years old and walking the hallways of Vogue. I was working; she was visiting.

My first thought when I started in journalism is that I wanted to work for a fashion publication like 'Vogue' or 'Glamour.'

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I'm here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

I want you to realize your voice matters.

If you really have a passion for something, you should follow it and listen to your inner voice.

To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.

I'm not saying I'm even half as talented or a quarter as talented as any of the people I'm inspired by, but if I hear a beat Busta Rhymes would absolutely kill, I'll use my voice to do a flow similar to his.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

I gave my voice to poetry.