Sound Quotes · Page 64

There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

— Kirko Bangz

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

— Kylie Minogue

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

— Justin Adams

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

— Elvis Costello

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

— Jan Garbarek

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers,…

— Christian Louboutin

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory,…

— Guillermo E. Brown

I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I…

— Black Francis

There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as…

— Nancy Wilson

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've…

— Flume

You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place has been…

— Cassandra Clare

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles…

— Anonymous

You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it…

— Chamillionaire

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words,…

— Robert MacNeil

I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in…

— Zoe Bell

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew…

— William Butler Yeats

That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it…

— A. R. Rahman

“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate,…

— Stephen King

The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte…

— Bobby Hull

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that…

— Joseph Campbell

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.…

— Andrew Marvell

My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans.…

— Tom Coburn

You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

— Ginuwine

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

— John Green

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

— Robert Urich

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

— Victoria Justice

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

— Michael Rapaport

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

— Ella Fitzgerald

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

— Nobuo Uematsu

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

— Sean Price

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

— Patti LuPone

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

— Kevin Drew

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

— John Mortimer

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

— Dave Brubeck

It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

— Emilia Clarke

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

— Pierre Schaeffer

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

— Kiera Cass