Quotes About Voice

It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

Getting a random star whose voice is not the right fit for the character but simply adds star value is avoidable as that can actually irk the audience.

I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.

Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

If it's the theatre and the stage that really interests you, you should work on your voice, develop its range and flexibility and most important of all - projection!

I recognize that my voice is kind of quirky, and I don't have a lot of range. But I use it kind of in a conversational way, like Billie Holiday, I guess.

You don't get to choose your voice! I was never like, 'Oh, I'll take the voice that causes dogs to gather outside.'

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

Donald Trump is certainly an American original. Barack Obama, he's an American original. Where else but in America could that man become president? George W. Bush, a very different man from his father. These guys, they have their distinct voice and their distinct agenda.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

I was a girl who was told that girls should not have their voice. I was from a conservative Muslim family where they only think about their daughters getting married.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.