I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.
I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.
I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'
We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words and his voice to send a message for positive change.
When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children.
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.
