"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency… — Park Bo-young Copy Share Image
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition.… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness.… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like 'I want to… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the… — Willigis Jager Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I… — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look… — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena,… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A female voice can automatically trigger a reaction. The reasons why? Sound is the initial thing, and I've had people tell me… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That isn't really me. But I… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
At some point the label 'hard-rocker' began to get on my nerves, and I decided to break those chains. My music definitely… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
