76 quotes found
“To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.”
“You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing t...”
“...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...”
“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”
“It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear. ”
“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.”
“I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.”
“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 an...”
“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...”
“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
“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 incr...”
“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
“It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the ...”
“The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.”
“There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.”
“In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.”
“We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.”
“If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.”
