Sound Quotes · Page 101

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

— Tom Harrell

“Tears are my joy to hide my pain; like thunder hides the sound of rain.”

— Munia Khan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

— Bob Dylan

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

— Nina Simone

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

— Juliana Hatfield

When the music and rain sound the same, what an incredible sound they make!

— Anonymous

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

— Nas

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

— Anonymous

The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the…

— Cornelius Cardew

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool…

— Jonathan Davis

With someone like Charlie Mingus, there is a counterweight between melody and raucousness. He is still very melodic even though is tearing…

— Melody Gardot

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be…

— Patrick Dempsey

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,…

— Gautama Buddha

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms…

— Sharon Salzberg

A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia.…

— Mario

None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should…

— Thomas S. Monson

I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I…

— Kate Voegele

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole…

— Alan Bennett

I think, and there's a pretty strong economic consensus on this, that at that juncture you should spend more, even though it…

— Thomas B. Edsall

I got to a happier point and then started making a record [Wild Things]. I don't mind at all that it sounds…

— Ladyhawke

I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably…

— Miguel Migs

I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the…

— Channing Tatum

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left…

— Cornelia Funke

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a…

— Jandy Nelson

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

— Publilius Syrus

I don't want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of…

— Thomas Grennan

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

— David Guetta

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

— Samuel Johnson

Tell of His wondrous faithfulness, and sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of His grace, the love and truth of…

— Isaac Watts

I bought a gun because POW POW sounds a lot better than Hey, put that back!

— Joe Torry

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to…

— David Ogden Stiers

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

— Jay Mohr

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

— Richard M. Nixon

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

— Simone Elkeles

“Silence is not just the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence.”

— Haruki Murakami

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

— Sebastian Stan

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

— Dres

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

— Amanda Hocking