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The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all. -- Arvo Part
The human voice is the organ of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing. -- Rudolf Bing
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. -- Billy Higgins
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal. -- Ken Hill
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. -- Klaus Schulze
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. -- Richard Strauss
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. -- Stan Getz
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. -- Yanni
It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small. -- Ian Holm
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. -- Maya Angelou
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities. -- Stjepan Hauser
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
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice. -- Eric Clapton
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
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. -- Claron McFadden
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice. -- Luka Sulic
Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another. -- Caroline Shaw
But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body. -- Jason Mraz
The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play. -- Luka Sulic
Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience. -- Matthew Arnold
Literature is the voice of the human heart. -- Graham Swift
Poetry is music written for the human voice. -- Maya Angelou
A poem is like a score for the human voice. -- Li-Young Lee
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. -- Earle Birney
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice. -- Tom Petty
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. -- Dayananda Saraswati
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. -- George Eliot
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself, -- Augustus
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? -- Erica Jong
Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us. -- Lech Walesa
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. -- Richard Strauss
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real -- Studs Terkel
Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God. -- Shusha Guppy
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human. -- Arthur Rimbaud
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline. -- Jerome Hines
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown. -- William Henry Harrison
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline -- Jerome Hines
Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. -- William Robert Woodman
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It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice. -- Steve Vai
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical. -- Grimes
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Okay, boys.â? Pestilence's grating voice rang out. â??Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! -- Larissa Ione
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. -- Richard Wagner
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream. -- Roger Ebert
My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. -- Margaret Atwood
I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me. -- Lorrie Moore
The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity... -- Bernie Sanders
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. -- John Ruskin
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us. -- Renee Fleming
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction I heart takes us decide whether we should have human rights? -- Isabella Poretsis
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction I heart takes us decide whether we should have human rights~? -- Isabella Poretsis
They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being, she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. They were braced for an interspecies liaison. -- Edith Pearlman
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
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. -- Albert Schweitzer
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion. -- Thomas Hampson
Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely. -- Christine Caine
I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time. -- Chris Thile
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights? -- Isabella Poretsis
Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. -- Ben Harper
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank. -- John F. Kennedy
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. -- John Quincy Adams
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody. -- Stan Getz
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
The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments -- Charles-Auguste de Beriot
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing. -- Arca
Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them. -- Ella Fitzgerald
I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice. -- Bonnie Raitt
The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but there's something about the saxophone that just grabs you. -- Matana Roberts
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified. -- Robert Pinsky

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