Voice Quotes - Page 214

Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

That you honestly believe I am capable of hurting innocent people for no reason.” “You’re not?” I asked, hope softening my voice. “Oh, no, I’m more than capable. I just didn’t realize you knew that.

I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.