Quotes About Voice

after Gordon MacRae sings "I Only Have Eyes for You" in his beautiful tenor voice, his

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tož demokracii bychom už m?li, te? ješt? n?jaké ty demokraty.

Recuerdo que una vez le dijo a la raza que leyeran los poemas en voz alta porque la voz era la semilla del amor en la oscuridad.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation." ? Toni Cade Bambara, born #OTD in 1939

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

Nico, dresses in virginal white, sang in a voice one writer described as "like a cello getting up in the morning

The truth is, a writer's voice is made from other writers' voices. Pieced together, picked and chosen, stumbled into, uninformed: influence seems like an involuntary series of contagions that eventually turns into a sort of vessel, or transportation system. As we acquire a sense of taste, and perhaps a sense of vocation, our reading becomes more directed and targeted, but we are bent and shaped and destined to be changed by the genius of others.

In many poems voice is the mysterious atmosphere that makes it memorable, that holds it together and aloft like the womb around an embryo.

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.

The hard part is discovering the name of the beer. We know how to brew good beer, but it is the name that animates the liquid and gives it a voice. The flavor comes afterward, to the consumer, and it must live up to their expectations, but first there is the name. If the beer really does speak, the label is the first sentence.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

Fashion speaks for itself.

the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself

I shut my ears, averted my eyes, turning instead to what I thought at the time was pain's antidote: silence. I was wrong... Silence feeds pain, allows it to fester and thrive. What starves pain, what forces it to release its grip, is speech, the voice upon which rides the story, this is what happened; this is what I have refused to let claim me.