Vocal Cords Quotes

• People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  People, Chinese, Sound

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• A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Black, Twenties

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• Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

  Adele

  Cry, Vocal, Cords

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

  Bjork

  Humidity, Cents, Ideals

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Struggle, Unique

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• And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

  Micky Dolenz

  Singing, Muscles, Physical Things

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• If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

  Alfonso Ribeiro

  Relax, Ifs, Vocal

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• Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

  Shania Twain

  Voice, Issues, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Reality, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

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• Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

  Renee Fleming

  Believe, Athlete, Voice

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• Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

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• Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.

  Jeff Mathews

  Believe, Eye, Artist

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• The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Tails, Apes

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• You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Humorous, Mean

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic

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• I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

  Joan Baez

  Rocks, Coming Out, Dependent

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

  Joan Baez

  Voice, Guy, Sound

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

  Joan Baez

  Struggle, Fighting, Voice

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Vocal, Cords

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

  Dionne Warwick

  Trying, Helping, Vocal

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• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wild And Free, Vocal, Cords

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Guitar, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.

  Stuart Hill

  Pain, Moving, Glasses

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.

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• The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

  Frank Beddor

  Voice, Iron, Important

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