I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.
~By Mike Judge ~
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
~By Kate Smith ~
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
~By Learned Hand ~
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
~By Muddy Waters ~
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.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
~By Bob Graham ~
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
~By Howard Keel ~
I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.
~By Don Henley ~
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
~By Cassandra Wilson ~
As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
~By Ben Harper ~
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
~By Shania Twain ~
Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
~By Huey Long ~
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
~By Carl Jung ~
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
~By Loretta Young ~
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
~By Mark Sanford ~
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
~By Richard Strauss ~
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.
~By Matt Dillon ~
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
~By Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ~
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
~By Gretchen Mol ~
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
~By Jim Walton ~
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
~By Alma Gluck ~
I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
~By Jeanette MacDonald ~
What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.
~By Keith David ~
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
~By Jesus Christ ~
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
~By Lactantius ~
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
~By Logan P. Smith ~
There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
~By Chuck D. ~
Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
~By Conor Oberst ~
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
~By James Iha ~
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
~By William Dean Howells ~
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
~By Andres Segovia ~
My voice is stronger today than ever.
~By Shania Twain ~
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
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.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
~By Little Milton ~
You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
~By Miriam Hopkins ~
I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.
~By John J. McCloy ~
Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
~By Eydie Gorme ~
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.
~By Joanne Woodward ~
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
~By Phil McGraw ~
There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
~By Matt Drudge ~
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
~By William Kennedy ~
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
~By Shane West ~
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
~By Susan Boyle ~
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
~By Puff Daddy ~
I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
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.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
~By Ken Hill ~
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
~By George Grosz ~
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
~By Chris Burke ~
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
~By Anthony Hamilton ~
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
~By Kate Smith ~
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
~By Mark Zuckerberg ~
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.
~By Alcuin ~
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
~By Whitney Houston ~
The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.
~By Kelli White ~
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
~By Lynda Barry ~
But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
~By Orson Pratt ~
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
~By Barbara Walters ~
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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.'
~By Tim Vine ~
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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