Voice Quotes

I’m a big fan of the old school telephone. The actual sound of someone’s voice, as opposed to social media, is what’s really important to me.

I’m never going to retire. I look at Tom Jones. He’s amazing. His voice is as strong as ever — and he’s got ten years on me.

When I was making records 50 years ago, you didn’t have a voice of any kind. What the man wanted was what you did. You made his records, with his lyrics and men producers, everybody was a man back then. All women have power, we just couldn’t show it … That’s why I love #MeToo […]

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice and just as the touch on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice […]