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Quotes About Voice

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
~ Audre Lorde
The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
~ Banksy
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
~ Alfred Lunt
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
~ Jane Rule
Use your art to fight.
~ Arundhati Roy
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
~ Kanye West
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
~ Nellie Melba
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.
~ Alan Bennett
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
~ Beverly Sills
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.
~ Plutarch
Art and politics have many things in common.
~ Tania Bruguera
Art destroys silence.
~ Alicia Ostriker
I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
~ Antoine Fuqua
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
~ Erica Jong
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
~ Alla Nazimova
Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.
~ Justine Larbalestier
I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.
~ Unknown
Art needs to stand for something.
~ Ai Weiwei
Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.
~ Ani DiFranco
I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
~ Kathleen Hanna
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
~ Thomas Boswell
God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?
~ Deyth Banger