Quotes About Communication

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.

A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed.

When I use my vocal cords, it kind of feels like what it feels like when you put your shoes on the wrong foot.

The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

The neighbors prefer I don't do vocals at night. It gets a little iffy when I'm screaming.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

With Mr. Bungle, I'd lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I'd ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.

It was fine at the start but there's always politics in any band. It just happened that I always got more vocals than everybody else, so in terms of people wanting their voice heard, that wasn't happening. It made people, very bitter.

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.