Quotes About Voice

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

I have had people telling me that they liked my screen presence and my voice, so I guess that's my strength.

The thing I admired most about Scott was his fearlessness. Of course his voice, lyrics, and stage presence have always had an effect on me as they have most STP fans. But it was his fearlessness that I admired the most.

There will always be a certain segment of the population who turns on an NBA game or turns on a college game and hears my voice and objects to my presence. I've conceded that. I can't please everybody. I don't even try.'

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream.

I thought I had a pretty good American accent but I had a few sessions with a voice coach over there and she was picking up on a few things. Possibly because I've got such a strong Northern accent, I emphasise the wrong part of words so the idea is to work on my American accent.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.