Human Voice Quotes

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

  Richard Strauss

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Caring, Compassion

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• The human voice is the organ of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Voice, Soul, Organs

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• How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.113

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• Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Mean, Voice

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

  Danielle Steel

  Voice, People, Needs

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• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

  Richard Wagner

  Beautiful, Voice, Organs

  Richard Wagner (1900). “Opera and Drama”, p.122, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Eye, Hands, Voice

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• What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

  Azam Ali

  Dream, Voice, Perfect

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• The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

  Arvo Part

  Voice, Perfect, Instruments

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• The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Loneliness, Voice, People

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• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Quiet Voice, Loving Someone

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• Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Song, Voice

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.36, NYU Press

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• We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Sea, Voice

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Music, Wisdom, Race

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

  Stan Getz

  Play, Voice, Saxophone

  "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

  Shusha Guppy

  Beautiful, Voice, Musical

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

  Jane Addams

  Voice, Differences, Unity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Distance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

  Rudolf Bing

  Nice, Voice, Singing

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• So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beautiful, Running, Hurt

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• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Communication, Men, Voice

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter III: "The Tool", 1939.

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