Quotes About Voice

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.

Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.

You can take 200 people in a crowd of 10,000 and if they choose to be heard, they sound very loud. I'm talking fans scattered around the arena - if they're chanting the same thing, 200 people can make a lot of noise.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact, changed the country and the world for the better in noticeable ways. His vision has made the world a more equal place, and if not equal, it has helped to ensure that minorities have a voice.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.