Voice Quotes

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.