Sound Quotes

I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

I'm really into Steve O'Sullivan and Mosaic/Sushitech with that dub sound.

'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

Democrats don't sound united.

I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker.

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

Wow, that sounds total stalker." Or totally hot. God.

His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

I know this sounds ridiculous but I like guys with love handles. I hate a washboard stomach - that does not turn me on.

I feel like with our shows it always feels weird to be performers on stage and not engaging in audience interaction in some way - that exchange of energy is very much a part of the sound.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

As you and I walk the pathway Jesus walked, let us listen for the sound of sandaled feet. Let us reach out for the Carpenter's hand. Then we shall come to know Him.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.