Quotes About Voice

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I whispered to him, You'll regret it if you let me go. I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow' He didn't believe me, he made his choice & That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?