Sound Quotes

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

I don't really care how I sound.

When I'm lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes.

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something inside that lies next to me.

I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

Lawyer even sounds like liar.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.