Quotes About Voice

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I'm right and they are wrong.

When I sing, people shut up.

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever it is they're given.

Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there's no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I'm not going to do that.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

You're not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you're scared of voicing your opinions.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it's important to speak out.

Silence is the residue of fear.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won't be silenced.

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.