- Nov 07, 2020
Voice Quotes
Every voice carries something different.
These lines move between the literal — a performer's range and technique — and the personal, like speaking up for people who feel unheard. For more first-person reflection, see our Me quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Certain Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.
- First-Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
- Nov 07, 2020
The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020