Sound Quotes · Page 119

“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”

— Adam Haslett

What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the…

— Cynthia Erivo

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

— Ray Bradbury

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

— Phil Spector

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

— Ednita Nazario

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

— George Ella Lyon

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

— Margaret Halsey

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

— Bryan Ferry

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very…

— Pixie Lott

There's very little synthesized sound in the 'Arrival' score. There are a couple of synthesized beats in there, but 99 percent of…

— Johann Johannsson

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be…

— Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just…

— William Stafford

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds…

— Henry Ward Beecher

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have…

— Pearl Bailey

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is…

— Alexis De Veaux

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the…

— Tom Hooper

Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces…

— Bryan Beller

My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am…

— Warsan Shire

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the…

— Ringo Starr

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice -…

— Stephen Hawking

The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about…

— Jay Leno

Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing.…

— Eden Sher

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly,…

— Virginia Woolf

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

— Jerry Cantrell

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

— Victoria Legrand

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

— John F. Kennedy

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

— Elizabeth Blair Lee

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

— Robert Fripp

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

— Joey Ramone

I was obsessed with 'The Sound of Music.' I always feel nostalgic watching it.

— Sophie McShera

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

— Janis Joplin

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

— Simone Weil

You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than 5 times describing the sound of a tornado.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.

— Duke Ellington

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

— Yo-Yo Ma

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

— Vince Vaughn

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

— Confucius

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

— Chuck Yeager

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

— Betty White