Sound Quotes · Page 84

Living with our headphones up, 'cause we've got sound and that's enough.

— The Ready Set

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

— Larry Wall

It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

— Kate Moss

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

— John Cage

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

— Anne Tyler

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

— Siobhan Fahey

I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never…

— Meryl Davis

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

— Kelly Clarkson

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and…

— Justin Verlander

I don't ever really think about the genre I'm writing in, I just look at the project that I'm going to be…

— Bear McCreary

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the…

— Thom Yorke

Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself…

— Anonymous

Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At…

— P. J. O'Rourke

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who…

— Hillary Clinton

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every…

— Jeffrey Deitch

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with…

— H. L. Mencken

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things…

— Ernest Hemingway

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but…

— Aaron Tveit

“As people like sharing pieces of their history, let us listen to how they speak, what they say, but precisely what they…

— Erik Pevernagie

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it…

— John Zorn

I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal…

— Gustave Flaubert

In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read…

— Shannon Hale

I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I…

— Mario Sorrenti

I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound.

— Jancee Dunn

A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.

— Richelle Mead

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really…

— Drumma Boy

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

— Kiera Cass

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

— Dennis Lindley

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

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

— Dave Brubeck

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

— Tom Verlaine

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

— Wyndham Lewis

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

— Planningtorock

I think we weren't afraid of kind of pushing the boundaries in terms of how an album could collectively sound.

— Calum Hood

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

— Matt Ross

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

— Patti LuPone