Sound Quotes

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks and sounds like I'm able to have fun there, then I'm all for it.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.