Voice Quotes

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

~ Yoko Ono

It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it's important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.

~ Shawn Mendes

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.

~ Randi Weingarten

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

~ Tyra Banks

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.

~ Ryan Zinke

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.

~ James Blunt

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

~ Morrissey

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

~ Kelly Wearstler

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

~ Suze Orman

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

~ Paige O'hara

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

~ Rebecca Hall

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

~ Henry Miller

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.

~ Duane Michals

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

~ Trevor Noah

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

~ Elon Musk

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

~ John Major

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.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

~ Steve Crocker

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

~ Reed Hundt

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

~ Laura Dern

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

~ R. Kelly

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

~ Zhang Ziyi

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

~ Andrea Dworkin

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

~ Two Chainz

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

~ Brad Goreski

My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by the person standing behind me by my voice. I thought that was hysterical!

~ Erica Cerra

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

~ Raina Telgemeier

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

~ Donna Brazile

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

~ Fanny Howe

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

~ Billy Collins

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

~ Jamila Woods

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

~ Robert Morgan

I gave my voice to poetry.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

~ Saint Ambrose

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

~ Gerry Cooney

Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest.

~ Corey Hawkins