Human Voice Quotes - Page 2

• You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

  Billy Higgins

  Voice, Firsts, Instruments

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• The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

  Stan Getz

  Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

  John Connolly

  Song, Real, Lying

  "The John Connolly Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts".

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• Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Voice, People, Doe

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• As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or speech, so, as far as we can know, divinity and humanity act together in the thought and heart and act of the one Christ.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Heart, Soul And Body, Voice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 56), 1895.

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• When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Regret, Fall

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

  Klaus Schulze

  Emotional, Voice, Musical

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• I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

  Freya Stark

  Night, Thinking, Voice

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Baby, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• A poem is like a score for the human voice.

  Li-Young Lee

  Voice, Score, Humans

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• The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.

  John Green

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.202, Penguin

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• These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Airplane, Voice

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  Home, School, Voice

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• Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

  John Ruskin

  Voice, Speech, Graves

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.370

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• There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

  Tom Petty

  Voice, Choices, Politics

  Song: The Last DJ, Album: The Last DJ

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• I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Thinking, Voice

  "A Marriage Made In Heaven; or, Too Tired For an Affair". Book by Erma Bombeck, 1993.

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• I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

  Studs Terkel

  Real, Voice, Delight

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girl, Voice, Dumb

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.6, Vintage

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• The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.

  M. L. Stedman

  Islands, Light, Wind

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Voice, Discipline, Sound

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• There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Army, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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• Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.

  Christine Caine

  Voice, Way, Humans

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017

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• Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Voice, Poetry, Humans

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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• She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reality, Voice, Worry

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