My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
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As quoted in TIME (1983), and The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie MaggioBeverly Sills
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THE SERPENT: The voice in the garden is your own voice.
ADAM: It is; and it is not. It is something greater than me: I am only a part of it.
EVE: The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. Yet I do not want you to die before me. No voice is needed to make me feel that.
ADAM [throwing his arm round her shoulder with an expression of anguish]: Oh no: that is plain without any voice. There is something that holds us together, something that has no word —
THE SERPENT: Love. Love. Love.
ADAM: That is too short a word for so long a thing.George Bernard Shaw
I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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