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Quotes About Voice

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
~ Eric Clapton
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
~ Florence Welch
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
~ George Herbert
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
~ George Orwell
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
~ Lord Byron
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
~ Madeleine Albright
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
~ Mark Twain
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.
~ Nalini Singh
O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
~ Richard Llewellyn
The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
~ Henry Miller
You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...
~ Holly Near
Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.
~ Jack White
Let every man sing his own song in life.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.
~ Common
When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
~ Natalie Portman
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
~ Robert Brault
I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.
~ Jennifer Weiner
In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.
~ Jawwad Zafar
Money talks, I record.
~ Toba Beta
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
~ Toni Braxton
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
~ Mika Brzezinski
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox