Voice Quotes

• Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, but there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Song
  • Said
  • Guitar

• You are caught, Sentinel.? His voice was rough.

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Caught
  • Rough
  • Sentinel

• I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

  

  Deb Olin Unferth
  • Funny
  • Disturbing
  • Mode

• I love Aretha and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Loved

• I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Proud
  • Industry

• In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

  

  Nneka
  • Singers
  • Germany
  • Nigeria

• If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Forget
  • Lyrics
  • Kinda

• It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

  

  August Strindberg
  • God
  • True
  • Faith

• The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Together
  • Voice

• We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

  

  William Gibson
  • Tongue
  • Frequency
  • Babel

• A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

  

  Plutarch
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Feathers

• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Voice
  • Word
  • Avalanche

• And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Voice
  • Hill
  • Vanished

• At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

  

  Edgar Fawcett
  • Voice
  • Choice
  • Sunset

• Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Solitude
  • Comfort
  • Turmoil

• I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

  

  Mel C Spice Girls
  • Voice
  • Ways
  • Singer

• All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Voice
  • Variety

• Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Why
  • Buddhist
  • Buddhism

• Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Voice
  • Field
  • Ruin

• Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.

  

  Confucius
  • Remember
  • Understand
  • Conscience

• Hikmah Wisdom is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Wisdom
  • Raise
  • Eyebrow

• The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: “Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?” A thousand. None of them good enough.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Good
  • Think
  • Sound

• If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Moral
  • Silence

• Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

  

  Saadi
  • Two
  • Stock
  • Perfection

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