Sound Quotes · Page 62

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound…

— Gary McCord

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

— Bruce Hornsby

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

— Stephenie Meyer

For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.

— Stephanie Ellis

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

— Chris Thile

I think the love of the people and my capacity to love them back has much to do with my sound health.

— Dharmendra

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I…

— Eric Lewis

What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound…

— Bill Cosby

Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because…

— Lauryn Hill

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says,…

— Humpy Koneru

There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best…

— Tom Jones

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a…

— Paul O'Grady

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out…

— Eddie Condon

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

— Stephen Fry

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…

— Harlan Coben

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I…

— Jackie McLean

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name,…

— Jase Robertson

Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided…

— KT Tunstall

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This…

— Elliott Smith

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of…

— Anonymous

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

— Meher Baba

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum…

— Joey Sturgis

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top…

— Paul Hawken

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get…

— Jacqueline Fernandez

It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

— Melissa Fumero

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

— George Gershwin

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

— Paul Gauguin

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

— Flume

Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day.

— Yoko Ono

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

— Ray Romano

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

— Amy Goodman

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

— Murray Head

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

Steve Vai had a unique style of playing. Steve Vai didn't sound like anyone else: Steve Vai sounded like Steve Vai.

— John 5

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

— Alex Garland

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous