Sound Quotes · Page 110

Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing.

— Bear McCreary

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

— Lady Gaga

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

— Kurt Angle

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

— John Cage

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

— Penelope Keith

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

This is going to sound bad but I can't stand people - a crowd of people.

— Jordy Nelson

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my…

— Missy Elliot

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put…

— Planningtorock

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people…

— Katherine Waterston

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music.…

— Douglas Coupland

My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst for the movement of Jesus Christ ... Some…

— Erwin McManus

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very…

— Evan Parker

I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm…

— Martina Navratilova

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the…

— Andy Warhol

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would…

— Dolores O'Riordan

I know this will sound naïve, but I often wonder what America would be like if our national ethos was simply to…

— George Saunders

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a…

— Denis Johnson

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of…

— Rodney Atkins

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of…

— Stephen King

Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up…

— Evelyn Underhill

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the…

— Victoria Finlay

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and…

— Tilda Swinton

“Laughter is the only sound left I can make that people will understand.”

— Anonymous

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a…

— Katy B

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

— David Lynch

I always wanted to sound international, and I wanted my message to be heard by the world.

— Masked Wolf

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

— Marcel Proust

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we…

— Kathleen Turner

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

— Plato

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

— Kristen Stewart

I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're…

— Demetri Martin

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

— Ilona Andrews

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

— Ted Allen

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

— Akif Pirincci

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It…

— Eddy de Clercq

You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

— Jimmy Iovine

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

— Bruno Mars