"There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it."

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Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

Jimmy Scott

#Careers Quotes #Voice Quotes #Style Quotes

“Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.169, The Overlook Press
“It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.263, Harlequin
“It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.”
“Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”
“What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.”
“In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.”
“Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.”
“Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.”

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