Sound Quotes · Page 77

“Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own?”

— Greg Gifune

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

— Hermann Hesse

I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very…

— Jenny Downham

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

— Adrian Younge

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

— Judd Apatow

'Reflection' and 'Going Nowhere' would've been great singles because that's the exact sound that we wanted to achieve.

— Dinah Jane

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge…

— Felix Baumgartner

Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it?

— David Letterman

In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and…

— Dewey Redman

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their…

— Samuel Johnson

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When…

— Keith Jarrett

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try…

— Liza Richardson

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel…

— George Jones

O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should…

— Richard Jefferies

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in…

— Greg Ginn

The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential…

— Jose Peralta

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for…

— Eric Liu

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…

— Thomas Merton

I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream…

— J Balvin

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not…

— Agatha Christie

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed…

— John Ralston Saul

I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now…

— Don Hertzfeldt

My top beauty tip is to drink lots of water. It might sound lame, but it works.

— Georgia Salpa

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

— Petra Haden

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

— Reed Hastings

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

B.A. Raju garu is very knowledgeable when it comes to cinema. He has sound analysis.

— Nani

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

— Gene Cernan

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

— Cher Lloyd

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

— Ron Carter

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun…

— Zachary Levi

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of…

— John Cage

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

For me it's liberating to write something sonically different every time that doesn't sound like anyone else.

— Raye

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

— Yann Martel

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

— Andrew Mellon