Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose…

— Christine Caine

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

— Richard Wagner

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it…

— Chris Thile

There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying…

— Sherwood Anderson

“It was toffee; they were advertising toffee, a nursemaid told Rezia. Together they spell t...o...f... "K...R..." said the nursemaid, and Septimus heard her say…

— Virginia Woolf

Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing.

— Jackie Fuchs

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based…

— William Bourke Cockran

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of…

— Arca

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

— Stan Getz

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are…

— Ella Fitzgerald

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

— Tom Petty

I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just…

— Bonnie Raitt

“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for…

— Ander Monson

“The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice,…

— Jonathan D. Spence