Vocal Communication Quotes

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

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

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

I’m not a scholar or a psychologist, so I don’t really think about why. But I do think about what it means to sing to and with people, to offer music to them, and to ask them to spend time with me.

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

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.