If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.
A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.
But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
You must be loud but you must also be understandable. There’s no point in being loud if you can’t be understood.
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.
The key to being a singer - try to do it audibly.
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
I love to be the loudest thing in the room.
I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
