Voice Quotes

Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.

~ Slavoj Žižek

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

~ Marianne Faithfull

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

~ Victor Lavalle

So they're looking for a new face, with a voice to go along. I can tell you right now that ain't my style. I don't do no sing alongs, with my freedom.

~ Tegan Quin

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

~ Carson Daly

Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice... she's perfect.

~ Charice Pempengco

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

~ Junot Díaz

Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.

~ Theresa Rebeck

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

~ Dwyane Wade

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

~ Stephan Pastis

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.

~ Jessica Hagedorn

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

~ Leslie Fiedler

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

~ Zendaya

You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

~ Vint Cerf

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

~ Itzhak Perlman

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

~ Mary Szybist

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

~ John Yarmuth

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

~ Robert Mankoff

For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.

~ Johnny Mathis

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.

~ Jimmy Iovine

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.

~ Gregory Benford

Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.

~ Alexander Chee

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

~ Charles Baudelaire

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

~ Rupert Sheldrake

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

~ Cecilia Bartoli

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

~ Pierce Brosnan

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

~ Mary Steenburgen

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

~ Renée Fleming

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

~ Megan Hilty

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'

~ Anna Netrebko

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

~ Jens Lekman

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

~ Rachel Platten

Fifth grade was when I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit;' it was the energy, and his voice. I liked 311 and Sublime, too, though that might have been a little after that.

~ Ty Dolla Sign

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

~ Nas

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

~ Charley Pride

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

~ Paulina Rubio