Voice Quotes
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I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper The Voice?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.
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I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
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Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.
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A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
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If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.
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God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice.
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
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I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.
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I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
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If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.
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May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
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I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.
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I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.
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Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
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The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
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In Dogen's writing, the practical instruction, philosophy and poetry are together in one voice. People hear about his poetry, go to his work, and expect to find poetry, or they hear about his philosophy and expect to find philosophy. They look just for practical instruction and find poetry and philosophy. They can't make out the complexity of his writing, become frustrated and let him go.
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Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear.
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The Walker Brothers, they were a talented pair of people. I thought that Scott had a very fine voice.
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I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.
