Sound Quotes

I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

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.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

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

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

I've seen miracles happen with sound.

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.

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.