Sound Quotes

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.