Sound Quotes · Page 47

People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

— Ashley Graham

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

— Francois Truffaut

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

— Dale Carnegie

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings

— Capital STEEZ

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

— Tony Fadell

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

— Augustus Hare

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there…

— Dianne Reeves

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the…

— Daryl Hall

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those…

— Saoirse Ronan

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake,…

— Patricia C. Wrede

Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way…

— Dave Grohl

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other…

— Bernie Krause

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but…

— John Corigliano

The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of…

— Max Tundra

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to…

— Vincent Kartheiser

“Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by…

— Hari Kunzru

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.…

— Charles Dickens

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?”…

— William Goldman

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they…

— Miles Davis

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

— Ladyhawke

I'm not really a person who layers so much; I like each sound to have its place.

— Peaches

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

— Cesare Pavese

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

— M. Ward

His (Minho) voice is so low that I think the sound comes from the soles of his feet.

— Onew

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

— Kit Harington

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

— Jeremy Piven

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

— John McEuen

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

— Daniel Barenboim

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

— Roddy Doyle

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

— Jack Tatum

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!

— Edge

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

— A. J. McLean

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

— Eiji Yoshikawa