Sound Quotes

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?

I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions.

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

Don’t make a sound I’ll be your voice You don’t need to be afraid Anymore I’ll shine a light out in the dark Guide you here no matter how far

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

Pay attention to the sound of words.

I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it?

I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it