Sound Quotes

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.