Sound Quotes

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise...a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Sound has no parents.

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it sounds too much like someone else, I have a tendency to erase it.

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.

We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.