The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.

~ Jonathan D. Spence

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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

~ Aristophanes

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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

~ Flannery O'connor

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The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

~ Deke Sharon

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One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. They sounded grate! They sounded like prety music! I listened to those music werds until the sun went down...

~ George Saunders

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