I talk 'til I'm red in my face with strain polyps. I'll…

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are…

— Wes Montgomery

“Ch-ch-Changes, turn and face the strain, because I am trying to do just that.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three…

— Emily Blunt

Someone told me that they wished that my voice was two octaves lower.

— John Wilson

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

— K. J. Yesudas

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The…

— Mika

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

— Julie Andrews

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up…

— Chet Baker

Steve Laury smokes playing octaves.

— Nathan East

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal…

— Amity Shlaes

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come…

— Charles Duhigg

If I had to pick favourite parts of Interlagos, I would say the first and last corners. The first corner is really technical and…

— Romain Grosjean

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,…

— Chauncey Depew

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield