Unique Voices Quotes:

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

- Kate Atkinson

source: "Putting the fun back into fiction" by Kate Atkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2003.

topic: Unique, Unique Voices, Voice

I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made.

- Andre Holland

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Stars, Thinking, Unique, Unique Voices

We're so lucky to be living in this day and age when technology - the tools to tell our stories - is so accessible. However, content still reigns supreme. So find your voice, your unique voice, it's there inside of you. Find it, define it, write it down on paper, hone it, and clarify it. Everything else is just technology which will help you tell your story.

- Ramona S. Diaz

topic: Writing, Unique, Technology, Unique Voices

I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really important, because that's the things that's going to separate you from everybody else, that's going to give you your unique voice as a music that you create.

- John Petrucci

source: Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

topic: Writing, School, Unique, Original Music, Unique Voices

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

topic: Unique, Men, Who I Am, Muster, Sands Of Time

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

- Naomi Watts

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Writing, Character, Thinking, Unique Voices

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

- Gregory Isaacs

topic: Sweet, Nice, Artist, Sam Cooke, Unique Voices

George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.

- Patty Loveless

topic: Country, Song, Real, George Jones, Unique Voices

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

- Babatunde Adebimpe

topic: Unique, Voice, Effort, Unique Voices

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

- Joshua Waitzkin

topic: Unique, Voice, Issues, Long Term Success, Learning Process

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

- Jimmy Smits

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Unique, Hands, Voice, Unique Voices

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

- Dirk Benedict

topic: Unique, Voice, Needs, Unique Voices

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

- Dirk Benedict

topic: Believe, Unique, Voice, Angelou, Unique Voices

Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

- Kristine Kathryn Rusch

topic: Writing, Unique, Voice, Political Science, Unique Voices

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Gloria Steinem's message to girls around the world", www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Unique, Voice, Causes, Unique Voices

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.

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Unique, Years, Skills, Unique Voices

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

- Michael Marshall Smith

topic: Powerful, Dark, Unique, Unique Voices

I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

- Kara DioGuardi

topic: Unique, Voice, People, Unique Voices

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

- Thomas Perry

source: Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

topic: Unique, Voice, Unique Voices

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

- Pearl Cleage

source: Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

topic: Loneliness, Coffee, Unique, Black Coffee, Unique Voices