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Simon Frith, a music critic for the Sunday Times of London, asks that when you listen to music whose voice do you hear. The obvious answer to this question is the singers. Frith states that is the voice that we hear, but we each hear it in different ways. In “The Voice”, a chapter from the book Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music, Frith discusses the voice as: a musical instrument, a body, a person, and a character. Frith discusses these ideas through the words “Gestures” and “Utterances”. He believes there are two ways of conveying meaning in music, through the sounds (gestures) and the words (utterances) of a song. As every individual listens to the gestures and utterances of a song they are in a way taking flight from reality. Music is safe haven and retreat, for everyone to get away from it all. Initially it is difficult to understand the meaning Frith places on the terms “gestures” and “utterances”. Though, he states both are ways of making meaning in music: …what is the relationship between the voice as a carrier of sounds, the singing voice, making “gestures,” and the voice as a carrier of words, the speaking voice, making “utterances”? The issue is not meaning (words)