Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message.
Interpretation
Your voice is a reflection of your inner self and emotions, while the techniques you use are just tools for expression.
In this quote, Dianne Reeves emphasizes that one's voice represents the deeper aspects of a person's character and feelings. It is not merely about the physical ability to sing or speak, but rather about how the individual conveys their emotions and messages through their chosen medium, which serves as a vehicle to express their true self.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-expression in an art class.
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.
You photograph with all your ideology.
I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
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