Sound Quotes · Page 108

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

— Denene Millner

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

— Ted Dekker

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

— Jaco Pastorius

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

— Paul Wellstone

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good…

— Nicholas Thorburn

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be…

— Daniel Smith

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

— Joey Heatherton

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

— Steve Burns

When people are advising, I keep my ears shut. It might sound terrible, but that's the truth. How I take advice is…

— Sargun Mehta

Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each…

— Frederick Lenz

I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will…

— Anonymous

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The…

— James Russell Lowell

I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds…

— Richelle Mead

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you…

— Angelique Kidjo

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious…

— Imogen Poots

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the…

— Igor Levit

We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds…

— Nick Hornby

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or…

— Iggy Azalea

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of…

— Dionne Brand

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic…

— Max Richter

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a…

— Salman Rushdie

We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and…

— Jess Margera

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.'…

— Rand Paul

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

— Jerry Brown

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

— Renee Fleming

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

— Russell Brand

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

— Alissa White-Gluz

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

— Jonathan Goldman

I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot

— Melissa James Gibson

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

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

— Questlove

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of…

— Robert E. Howard

One of the most important things I did was to create my own sound.

— Sisqo

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

— Sam Cooke

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

— Q-Tip

I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

— Post Malone

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

— Iggy Azalea

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

— Paul Lansky