Quotes About Perception

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

I feel like the timbre of your voice as a woman doesn't cut through as well as a loud bassy voice, so you need to noticeably speak up.

With us city girls, there is an assumption that we have the space to raise our voice.

My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.

I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.

I personally didn't realize people would enjoy my voice, I guess. I'm happy that they do, but I didn't know what to expect.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

I always hear I have the voice-over voice.

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.

You don't know how many celebrities I've gone into recording sessions with who first are kind of weirded out by us freaky voiceover people, then when the day is over, they want to stay. They haven't had that much fun acting in ages. It's hard to have any attitude about it.

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.

When I do a voiceover now, there are always a few people I've borrowed bits off, whether it's their hats or facial hair, who'll say: 'That's so funny; it's obviously based on this guy.' You think, 'It ain't: it's you.' Actors never think characters are based on them.

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.