Sound Quotes

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

I just love making sounds. Anything that made a sound, as a kid I was just taken back by and would sit with it for ages and just try and make all different sounds on it.

Good music is wine turned to sound

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at the same time; you have to really spend a lot of money on the equipment.

Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally.

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

I have literally just been in this place of zero fear. I just believe, as totally hippy bullsh*t as that sounds, anything's possible if you're willing to grab it and make it your own.

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.