Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Stojko

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

Ellie Goulding

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

Ellie Goulding

I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

Ellen Hopkins

A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

Joan Blondell

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

Joan Baez

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."

Lou Reed

You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck..

Mao Zedong

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

Tariq Ramadan

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

T. R. Knight

I remember saying to someone when I got one of those 'don't do it' comments - I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, 'No, it's going happen. It's going to happen. I'm just letting you know.'

T. S. Eliot

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

T. S. Eliot

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

T. S. Eliot

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

Sydney Schanberg

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Sydney Schanberg

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Sylvester Stallone

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

Susan Sontag

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Susan Sontag

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Ray Stevens

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

Ray Stevenson

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

Ray LaMontagne

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

Randy Bachman

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

Rajneesh

Learn to listen and trust your inner voice

Rajneesh

I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.

Rick Riordan

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Tracy McGrady

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Tori Amos

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

Verne Lundquist

Pardon me while I lower my voice.

Robert Redford

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Robert Redford

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.