Sound Quotes

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.