Top 25 Human Voice Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Human Voice Quotes from famous people such as Flume, Arvo Part, Julian Treasure, Svetlana Alexievich, Danielle Steel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite

It’s quite fun to mess with the human voice. It’s quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn’t sound too alien. I think that’s the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That’s an area that I like to explore a lot.
Flume
The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
Arvo Part
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
Julian Treasure
I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.
Svetlana Alexievich
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
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
Ken Hill
How nice the human voice is when it isn’t singing.
Rudolf Bing
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello… there are endless possibilities.
Stjepan Hauser
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
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
Billy Higgins
I’ve always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It’s the ultimate instrument, there’s this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.
Oneohtrix Point Never
I am very interested in the human voice and how we use it, especially when we aren’t thinking, like the kind of stuff Robert Ashley was interested in.
Julia Holter
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
Tariq Ali
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss
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
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
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
It’s not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.
Ian Holm
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice.
Stan Getz
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
‘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
The human voice is one of the most attractive things.
Denny Laine
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
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yanni