Sound Quotes

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct

Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

Listen, Sebastian," he whispered. "That beautiful sound belongs to us for the rest for our lives. That's your mother. She's sunshine. No matter what happens in our lives, we have that.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

The music I actually listen to sounds nothing like my own!

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.