Sound Quotes · Page 116

I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of…

— Little Louie Vega

Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

— Mervyn King

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

— Flying Lotus

I really put my feet into my music, I have a say in how I want my music to sound and where…

— Caleb McLaughlin

Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.

— Neil Diamond

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it…

— Harold Evans

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

— Joey Ramone

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

— Adam Jones

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what…

— Alan Hovhaness

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds…

— Owen Wilson

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the…

— Eminem

“Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed…

— Jack Gilbert

I'm a busy guy; I just get a lot of people that sound like me to go out and visit them. They…

— Zach Braff

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo…

— Moby

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people…

— Barry McGuigan

It may sound strange but for me the most difficult winger I have faced in the Premier League is Pulisic from Chelsea.…

— Joao Cancelo

But for the last couple of weeks I’ve had this bizarre sensation that something is watching me. (Simone) You mean someONE, right?…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the…

— Dean Wareham

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way…

— Nicholson Baker

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We…

— Anonymous

As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body…

— Uma Thurman

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes…

— Woodrow Wilson

What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop,…

— Jack Antonoff

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note,…

— Quincy Jones

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

— Jim Broadbent

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

— Joey Santiago

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

— Marianne Faithfull

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

— Kate DiCamillo

Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.

— Rick Riordan

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

— Alec Sulkin

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

— Carrie Brownstein

And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.

— Jay Asher

I sound like my mum and I like that. I like that I sound like where I'm from.

— Aimee Lou Wood

I think Charlotte Flair is great. I think she's a very sound wrestler.

— Jade Cargill

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

— Kathy Valentine

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

— James Earl Jones

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

— Edouard Manet

Anyone can speak your name,but only that special someone can make it sound like music!

— Horla