#Voice Quotes

“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”

“I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.”

“The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.”

“The women that I picked spoke sweet and lowAnd yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.”

“Laughter not time destroyed my voiceAnd put that crack in it,And when the moon's pot-belliedI get a laughing fit.”

“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”

“I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.”

“I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”

“Writing is the painting of the voice.”

“Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?”

“Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

“The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.”

“I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.”

“There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.”

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

“At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!”

“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

“How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.”

“If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?”

“Poetry gave me back my voice.”

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.”

“When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.”

“If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?”

“Find a voice in a whisper.”

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”

“If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.”

“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”

“Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease”

“Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.”

“Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.”

“Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.”

“I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”

“I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.”

“Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.”

“There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.”

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”

“You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.”

“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.”

“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”

“Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.”

“I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.”

“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

“It's important for us to tell our stories.”

“He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.”