Opera takes the human voice to the absolute limits of what it is capable of doing. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. — Yanni Copy Share Image
It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small. — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
“Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
“One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“And in my experience, any monster that talks in a human voice, is human. Or was.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. — Klaus Schulze Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.” — Deke Sharon Copy Share Image
I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. — Grimes Copy Share Image
“Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
