Quotes About Voice

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.