Voice Quotes - Page 40

• Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

  Isidore of Seville

  Eye, Ears, Letters

  "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

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• I walked in a desert.
  And I cried,
  ‘Ah, God, take me from this place!’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’
  I cried, ‘Well, But -
  The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.’
  A voice said, ‘It is no desert.’

  Stephen Crane

  Desert, Horizon, Heat

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America

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• Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Lying, Play, Boredom

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• Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

  Patrick Ness

  Stars, Moon, Singing

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• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

  Simon Armitage

  Thinking, Needs, Speak

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• It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

  Italo Calvino

  Ghost, Within You, Acquire

  Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.

  Billie Holiday

  Holiday, Thinking, Two

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Thoughtful, Long

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

  Leonard Feather

  Holiday, Soul, Intensity

  "From Satchmo To Miles". Book by Leonard Feather, p. 84, 1987.

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• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
  And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
  Would you hear my voice come through the music
  Would you hold it near as it were your own?

  Robert Hunter

  Sunshine, Gold, Tunes

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction... It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspiration, Heaven, Soul

  "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

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• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Technique

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• To free the voice is to free the person.

  Kristin Linklater

  Persons

  Kristin Linklater (1976). “Freeing the natural voice”, Drama Pub

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• When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mean, Differences, Support

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press

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• More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

  John Milton

  Fall, Evil, Safe

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.8

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• All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Intelligent, Encounters, Compelling

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• Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Jobs, Wall, People

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• The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

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• Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food and that inspires me.

  Laura Mvula

  Moving, Inspire, Singers

  "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

  Patty Griffin

  Advice, Different, Way

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• First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Heaven, Church

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• Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.

  Richard Ouzounian

  Character, Males, Depth

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• The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Two, Sweat

  "The Show-Woman". www.newyorker.com. October 30, 2006.

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• I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

  Joel Salatin

  Thinking, Community, Trying

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