Sound Quotes · Page 69

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

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

— David Draiman

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

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

— Mason Cooley

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound…

— Earl A Grollman

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and…

— Pat Swindall

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet…

— Louis L'Amour

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You…

— Ani DiFranco

In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed…

— Patrick Carman

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise,…

— Nikki Sixx

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread…

— Billy Joel

One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism,…

— Temple Grandin

You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I…

— Stephen Merchant

“Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to…

— Suzy Kassem

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and…

— Jean Renoir

If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a…

— Marilyn Manson

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of…

— Anonymous

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and…

— Criss Jami

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Rene Descartes

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

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

— Dewey Redman

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

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

— Philip Bailey

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young,

— Theresa May

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

— Sondre Lerche

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

— Kirstie Alley

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

— Richelle Mead

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

— Alexander MacLaren

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

— Jean Rhys

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

— Wyatt Cenac

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

— Mick Ralphs