Sound Quotes · Page 109

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

— Bryan Adams

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

— Johann Johannsson

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and…

— Brett Young

Whenever I sing on a different scale, I sound very different. However, I have learned that I can experiment with my tone.

— Tulsi Kumar

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

— John Wooden

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

— Callan McAuliffe

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

— Taryn Manning

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

— Steve Lacy

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it,…

— Tiny Tim

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened…

— Bucky Pope

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way,…

— Nas

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off…

— Dave Attell

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the…

— Steve Almond

man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where…

— Arthur Koestler

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.…

— B. F. Skinner

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even…

— Louise Hay

My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for…

— Ty Segall

Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible…

— Elizabeth Scott

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was…

— John Petrucci

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I…

— Mary Steenburgen

The relationship between human and animal is wholly symbiotic. The person needs the animal for comfort and companionship, and the animal needs…

— Ken Wahl

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

— Hugh Mackay

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

— Valerie Bertinelli

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

— Shana Alexander

It's a lot to take in to have won something as prestigious as BBC Music Sound Of.

— Sigrid

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

— Stan Freberg

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

— Peter Høeg

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

— Gustavo Dudamel

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

— Michael Thomas Ford

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

— Kaki King

Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.

— Margaret Hoover

The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

— Malachy McCourt

The Bad English thing, everybody was playing at once and it was a big wall of sound.

— John Waite

I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the…

— Herman Cain

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

— MC Hammer

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

— Bill Keller

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

— John C. McGinley