Sound Quotes

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Creed's sound is my sound.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.