Sound Quotes · Page 83

I just love the sound of my own voice. But I don't think mine is as funny as other people's.

— Butch Hartman

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

— Sam Hunt

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.

— Cary Grant

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

— Mark McCormack

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

— Thomas Beecham

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

— Lana Del Rey

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I…

— Matthew Rhys

It became a bit of a challenge to make an album that is essentially quite alternative sounding, and has a lot of…

— Will Farquarson

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half…

— Lord Byron

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow,…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain…

— Christina Aguilera

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it…

— Luigi Russolo

People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really…

— Nomi Ruiz

To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also…

— Frederick Lenz

I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it…

— Katherine Mansfield

Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound…

— Stefan Kieszling

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because…

— Steve McQueen

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what…

— Anonymous

It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph…

— Martin Amis

I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working…

— Amy Schumer

The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found…

— Christopher Nolan

I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very…

— Mattie Stepanek

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

— Cee Lo Green

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

— Tay Keith

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

— Eric Ripert

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

— Thomas Sowell

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

— Ben Howland

I stopped listening to a lot of music because I wanted to become more comfortable with what I naturally sound like.

— Saweetie

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

— Zubin Mehta

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

— Andy Partridge

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear..

— Joseph Smith, Jr

No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

— Celia Thaxter

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

— Janet Fitch

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

— Agatha Christie

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound.

— Stew

We got another sound comin' out of Philly that's a sure 'nough dilly.

— Don Cornelius

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

— Kane Brown