One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else’s voice. – Jeannette Walls
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. – Junot Diaz
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It’s very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. – Jacqueline Bisset
One of my earliest memories was me singing ‘Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’ at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn’t even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed. – James Taylor
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. – John le Carre
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you’ve just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you’re on your way. – Jay Kay
Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms. – Igor Luksic
The fact that I’m often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don’t have a good sound system. – James Mercer
After ‘Nikki’ and ‘Steve Harvey,’ I had written on a show called ‘The Oblongs,’ which was pretty well respected and had a lot of ‘Simpsons’ writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment. – Jill Soloway
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. – Jesse Jackson
I’m so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I’m really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same. – Jessie J
Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can’t see the actor, when it’s just the voice. – John Lasseter
We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel. – Indra Devi
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. – John Oliver
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in. – Hank Azaria
I have to say, I’m sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don’t really have an album – I have a playlist. – Heather Dubrow
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer. – Gregory Maguire
I don’t have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When you raise your voice in song to express what’s going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it’s so truthful. It’s so raw. – Jane Lynch
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic. – Joseph Brodsky
I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better. – Jimmy Cliff
I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through. – Jamie Kennedy