VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Bruce · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:28 am Post subject: The New Quote - Smell My Voice

I changed the quote up top:

“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.” ― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

Have you or someone who's judgement you trust described your voice? Care to share?

Do you sometimes employ mental or sensory images to help you achieve a particular sound or read?

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Philip Banks · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:17 pm Post subject:

Louise Douglas, a novelist, friend and one time journalist once described me (before we met) thus for a newspaper article.

"...really lovely voice, the sort of voice you wouldn't mind at all waking you up with a cup of tea in the morning..... this voice like sipping Bacardi and Coke on the Bounty beach at sunset on warm sand beneath the palm trees."

Fine!

Do I use imagery or anything else? No. I just sound like me and have been doing that for years. Seriously, I suspect with me it's muscle memory so I have moved from having focus on something to simply being able to switch into it.

HeatherMasters · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:05 pm Post subject:

I have always been unsure of how to characterize my voice, as sometimes people hire me for "raspy" voice, and some folks don't hear that at all.

Nancy Wolfson gave me a great description offhandedly once when she said, "You're voice has a powder in it"

That may not make sense to anyone but me, but when she said it, it really clicked and has stuck with me. Not sure why it matters, but somehow it gave me a bit of assurance. "Yes! That IS my voice!"
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Yonie · CM Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906

"A young guy who cares."

I made that up just now.

Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:47 pm Post subject:

"A Red Beret in a millinery of complacency"

todd ellis · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:56 am Post subject:

i was once described as:

"flashes of brilliance amid hours of mediocrity"

yeah --- that's true.
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Mike Harrison · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:33 pm Post subject:

"You sound as though you were one of our own technicians!"
(a project manager for Western Electric, the manufacturing and supply unit of what was once known as the Bell System)
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Rick Riley · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:27 pm Post subject:

A female critique: Like Dark Chocolate.
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Yonie · CM Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906

Bitter and best served with coffee?