Sound Quotes

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I hate my voice, I sound like a girl. I am in fact a male.

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.

I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.