Sound Quotes · Page 112

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

— Anonymous

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own…

— Debbie Harry

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

— Neal Schon

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

— Mary Oliver

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

— Molly Ivins

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

— Roman Jakobson

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind.…

— Birdy

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love…

— Regina Spektor

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we…

— Michael Scheuer

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about…

— Mike Figgis

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a…

— Herbert Gold

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if…

— Auguste Comte

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to…

— Andrew Scott

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I…

— Henry James

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to…

— Anonymous

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is…

— Ibrahim Rugova

[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?”…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a…

— Pauline Oliveros

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was…

— Dee Snider

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from…

— Shaun Tan

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

— Victoria Monet

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that…

— Jack Kevorkian

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

— Anne Bernays

I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then.

— DJ Premier

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

— Stephen Malkmus

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

— Ron Paul

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

— Steve Irwin

I do sound a little hippie-dippy, but it works for me. Just kind of starting my day with an attitude of gratitude.

— Lainey Wilson

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

— Edward Abbey

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

— Elvis Presley

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

— Amy Ryan

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.

— Leeza Gibbons

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

— Katy B

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just…

— Dave Grohl

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

— Matsuo Basho