Sound Quotes

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling always leads the sound!