Sound Quotes · Page 67

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

— John Bonham

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

— Dave Grohl

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

— Charles Ives

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

— Ray Bradbury

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

— Jane Austen

Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

— Shawn Mendes

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

— Tom Sturridge

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that…

— Adyashanti

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers…

— Terry McMillan

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different…

— Hutch Harris

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just…

— William Henry Bragg

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably 'The 4-Hour Workweek,'…

— Tim Ferriss

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It…

— Tinsel Korey

I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark…

— Mick Harris

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply…

— Charles Saatchi

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other…

— Nathan Myhrvold

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing…

— Jesse Schell

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my…

— Alfonso Cuaron

“Nyoka ni mnyama mdogo lakini anayeogopwa hata na majambazi wakubwa. Adui wa dirishani alipogeuka kumwangalia Murphy, alimwangalia pia mwenzake na kucheka bila…

— Enock Maregesi

I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted…

— Robert Plant

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

— William Baldwin

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

— Kristen Stewart

Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.

— Steve Lukather

Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.

— Jill Shalvis

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I…

— Mavis Staples

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

— Marshall McLuhan

I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.

— Ji Chang-wook

Me, I'm trying to sound like me. I don't be trying to sound like somebody.

— Trippie Redd

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

— Harvey Mason, Jr

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

— Peter Lynch

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

— Christian Bale

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

— Rex Reed

There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.

— Santigold

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

— Freddie Ljungberg

Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.

— Kirk Franklin

“Tears are my joy to hide my pain; like thunder hides the sound of rain.”

— Munia Khan