#voice

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#color #difference #expect #go #hear

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#ear #story #voice

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #claims #community #does #heard

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#easier #effort #find #half-hour #hard

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?' ↗

— David Johansen

#horrible #i #like #man #sometimes

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#every #every man #few #give #man

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#black music #interest #music #only #our

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#cover #every #eyes #face #few

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#conduct #first #first time #god #govern

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#hearing #inside #matter #narrator #simply