Sound Quotes · Page 125

It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

— Michael Gira

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

— Julian Casablancas

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

— Joseph Brodsky

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

— Broderick Crawford

“God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.”

— Gangai Victor

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

— Tucker Max

I want to write my own thoughts and make my own music. I need to experiment with my sound and style.

— Neha Bhasin

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

— Yuna

I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool…

— Chuck Inglish

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never…

— Fritz Kreisler

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to…

— Tryon Edwards

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the…

— Hans Zimmer

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh…

— Jessie Kahnweiler

In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the…

— Jason Johnson

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that…

— Dale Steyn

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually.…

— Charlie Hunnam

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The…

— Ian MacKaye

But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream. "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling…

— Neil Gaiman

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.…

— Mark Twain

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…

— Charles Mingus

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

— Mike Love

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

— Mary Pickford

Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

— Bridget Moynahan

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

— Tom Odell

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

— Christopher Smart

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

— Sara Bareilles

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

— Morris L. Ernst

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

— David Cook

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

— David Caruso

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

— David Levithan

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

— Guy De la Valdene

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

— Joseph Campbell

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

This might sound bad, but I really want to work with Eva Marie, just because it seems like that's what people want.

— Bayley

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

— Benmont Tench