There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.
Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.
I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.
I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.
You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.
I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.
I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.
