Sound Quotes

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

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.

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.

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

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.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

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.

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

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.