Voice Quotes
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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
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Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
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I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.
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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.
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Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
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That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.
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The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.
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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
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Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.
