Voice Quotes

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.

I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, 'Hey, fatty!'

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.