Great Voice Quotes:

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.

- Randy Bachman

topic: Voice, Stories, Great Voice, Distinctive

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she’s got a great voice and she’s a great songwriter as well

- Jamie Cullum

topic: Voice, Parks, Lizzy, Great Voice

There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she has a great voice. I also admire and respect John Legend. When he wrote "All of Me," I fell in love with the melody and music. He is an artist that really loves music and just has a great way with words.

- Heather Headley

topic: Artist, Voice, Legends, Great Voice

All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

topic: Gratitude, Home, Voice, Speaking Out, Great Voice

I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.

- Brian May

topic: Thinking, Voice, Hammers, Very Cool, Great Voice

God we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and ministry that belongs to you God. It is your work, your idea, it is your property, it is your airwaves, it is your world. We proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the name of Jesus and all the people said Amen!

- Paul Crouch

topic: Jesus, Hands, Names, Great Voice

Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.

- Big Sean

source: Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Crazy, Voice, Fans, Great Voice

A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Great Hearts, Great Voice

There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .

- Zach Anner

topic: Book, Talking, Voice, Great Voice, He Lied

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Teacher, Struggle, Sacrifice, Great Voice, Young Talent

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Voice, Stage, Great Voice

The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.

- Stevie Nicks

topic: Years, Voice, Dancing, Great Voice

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.

- Pat Riley

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Block, Positive Messages, Great Voice

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

- Bob Dylan

source: Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

topic: Heart, Thinking, Voice, Great Voice

I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.

- Joel Plaskett

source: Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

topic: Voice, Singing, Stronger, Getting Stronger, Great Voice

I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Self Confidence, Thinking, Voice, Great Voice

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Beautiful, Voice, Singers, Great Voice

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

- Marc E. Platt

topic: Lying, Voice, Emotion, Subtext, Great Voice

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

- Casey Abrams

topic: Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Great Voice

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

- Michael N. Castle

topic: Believe, Struggle, Rights, Contemporary Literature, Angelou

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

- Salma Hayek

source: "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Great Voice

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

- Patti Smith

source: "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

topic: Horse, Kings, Voice, Great Voice

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

- Mark Helprin

source: Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

topic: Death, Prayer, Pain, No Drama, Clearing

It has nothing to do with [Renee] being a female or not, it has to do with her being the right person for the job. She’s got a great voice that cuts through the clutter. She is very knowledgeable about WWE, about its history, about the talent and she is really willing to step up and do her homework. I think you’re going to see her grow. You’re going to see her jump on this challenge to become a regular fixture and a regular voice and, hopefully, maybe one day the voice of WWE.

- Triple H

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Thinking, Maybe One Day, Fixture

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

- Darren Hayes

topic: Thinking, Voice, Body, Great Voice

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

- Deborah Cox

topic: Dream, Eye, Voice, Epitome, Great Voice

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

- Marsilio Ficino

topic: Writing, Men, Voice, Great Voice

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

- Ray Stevens

source: FaceBook post by Ray Stevens from Apr 26, 2013

topic: Voice, Forever, Gone, George Jones, Great Voice

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Song, Voice, Singing, Great Voice

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

topic: Voice, Gone, Stills, Great Voice

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

- Kara DioGuardi

source: "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

topic: Song, Jobs, Thinking, Great Job, Great Voice

You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.

- Sean Garrett

topic: Song, Voice, People, Great Voice