Sound Quotes · Page 61

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

— Aldous Huxley

'The Sound Of Silence' taught us that we shouldn't be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

— David Draiman

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

— Ellie Goulding

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

— Jean Racine

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

— Ella Mai

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a…

— Tommy Shaw

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism,…

— Richard Carlson

The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow…

— Harold Klemp

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you…

— Kurt Vile

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies…

— Barry Manilow

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…

— Eberhard Weber

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.…

— Woody Allen

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten…

— Chris Messina

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is…

— John Crowe Ransom

A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To…

— Sir John Woodroffe

I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects,…

— Jeff Britting

As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on…

— Tony Robbins

Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I wrote, recorded and produced everything myself. I played the guitars and keyboards while the drums were programmed. As a producer, I…

— Paul Wardingham

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is…

— Leo Kottke

The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands…

— Jeffrey Nielsen

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

— David Stras

It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

— Urijah Faber

Especially with my first album, asking me to choose one sound to represent who I am; it just feels impossible.

— Raye

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

— Dewey Redman

People don't want classic bands to sound anything other than classic.

— Philip Bailey

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

— Charles Lamb

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

— Kato Kaelin

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

— Louise Bogan

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

— Katherine Hannigan

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

— Miranda July