Sound Quotes · Page 114

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

— Roscoe Mitchell

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

— Bram Cohen

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

— Steve Vai

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound,

— Sam Raimi

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

— Clive James

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French…

— French Montana

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

— Alexandra Potter

I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.

— Corrine Brown

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound…

— Banksy

When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take…

— Dane DeHaan

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a…

— Tim O'Brien

Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy…

— Stephen Kendrick

“if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within…

— brian andreas

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent…

— Lynda Obst

Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of…

— Jim Butcher

Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound.…

— Morihei Ueshiba

I shall not convert you at the end of my argument. I think the argument is sound. I hold that belief in…

— Cornelius Van Til

The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed…

— David Stockman

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are…

— Ray Bradbury

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said],…

— Morgan Freeman

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in…

— Washington Irving

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then…

— Terry Pratchett

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

— Clive James

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

— Nhat Hanh

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

— Khalil Gibran

“We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.”

— Francesca Marciano

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'

— George Lucas

When artists try to do a whole album by themselves, the songs start to sound similar.

— Sisqo

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the…

— Dave Clark

I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.

— Tierra Whack

“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

— Hanya Yanagihara

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

— Rory O'Malley

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what…

— Dave East

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

— John Prine

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

— Soccer Mommy

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her…

— Clarence Day