Sound Quotes

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

The sound of water says what I think.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.