Sound Quotes

We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself it makes the sound more special.

I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.