Quotes About Voice

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

I'd always thought pop stars had to be really sophisticated and grown-up. So I was enchanted by Bjork's childlikeness. I'd never heard a voice like hers, with all its character and glottal pronunciations, or music recorded with background noises, like the sound of the city or a bus pulling up.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.

I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

I've got that nice raspy sound.

I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

I didn't know what kind of sound I wanted to make. I didn't have no influences. I just heard my voice in the microphone and was like, damn, I like that.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!'

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.