Speaking Voice Quotes

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I do have a bit of a gravelly voice; people have told me I've got a good voice for radio.

I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.

Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.

Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.