Sound Quotes · Page 85

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

— Sean Price

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

— Ella Fitzgerald

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

— Michael Rapaport

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

— Robert Urich

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

— Victoria Justice

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

— John Green

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

— Kevin Drew

The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of…

— Hilary Kornblith

When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be…

— Studs Terkel

...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved.…

— Corinne Heline

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you…

— Gary Numan

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such…

— Charlotte Bronte

I sound good. My sound is different. My tone is different. I have a natural look, you know what I'm saying? I'm…

— Rubi Rose

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop,…

— Jennifer Lopez

The main idea of it was to multiply everything, to have a bigger sound and grow venue size and grow fan base.…

— Ed Sheeran

The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot,…

— Dean Wareham

I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all…

— Lord Kelvin

The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a…

— DJ Shadow

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You…

— Jens Lekman

Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of…

— Alexa Ray Joel

Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes,…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to…

— John Grogan

The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've…

— Ilona Andrews

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

— John Mortimer

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

— Elvis Costello

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

— Justin Adams

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

— Ginuwine

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers,…

— Christian Louboutin

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

— Jan Garbarek

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

— Paul Banks

This is going to make me sound 100 years old, but I really loved David Cassidy in 'The Partridge Family.'

— Fiona Bruce

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

— Mitch McConnell

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

— David Foster Wallace

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

— Van Morrison

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

— Kylie Minogue

There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

— Kirko Bangz

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

— Richie Hawtin