Sound Quotes

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

I take sounds and change them into words.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.