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• You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong
• I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered… — Neil Sedaka
• In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own… — Katherine Howe
• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale
• Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which… — Thomas Hampson
• The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion
• Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These… — Josiah Bartlett
• What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that… — Unknown Author

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