Sound Quotes
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
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.
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.
I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest shows on TV and I was a little intimidated working with those guys 'cause you're in a sound booth by yourself and they're all in a room in Atlanta.
Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.
If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.
Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.
