My employers used to say – ‘oh Thembi you have such a beautiful voice’

tone is very important. How you say things matters.

She can turn anything into gold with that voice, here's the thing: if you speak to a good singing teacher about great opera singers, they will talk about consistency of tone. Or there's a book by Alfred Tomatis about why some people like certain people's voices and other people hate them, like Bob Dylan or me or whoever, some people say, 'Oh, I hate that voice', so there's a thing about people's frequency responses, what they are pleased by. Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody.

Marcia: I appreciated the simplicity and when you just stand there and people hear your voice it's beautiful.

I like Lenny Kravitz, I like Pink, and for forever and ever I've thought that Whitney Houston has an amazing voice. I really love great voices.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

I like the tone of reality.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

There must be several voices together in one voice for it to be beautiful. And several meanings in one word for it to be beautiful.

The tone of voice influences the wisest of us and alters the force of a speech or a poem.

She has a very intense poetic mind. That's what makes it — that voice that comes in.

Holmes said Emerson had a beautiful voice, and, of course, Holmes had one of the most beautiful voices the Lord ever put into a throat.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

Thy voice is sweet, as if it took
Its music from thy face.
And word and mien, and step and look,
Are perfect in their grace.