Sound Quotes

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

You know, you sound like birds when you do that chuckle thing. It's nice. Over to the left, Vishous put his head in his hands.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

As horrible as this sounds, I am a little vulnerable about appearances.

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.