Sound Quotes · Page 97

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

— Trombone Shorty

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it…

— Frankie Valli

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

— Nahnatchka Khan

Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.

— Michael Gabellini

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

— Jon Secada

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

— Murray Rothbard

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the…

— Ann Patchett

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people…

— Matt Tong

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound,…

— Cecilia Bartoli

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a…

— Diana Gabaldon

Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may…

— Rick Riordan

I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and…

— Johnny Cash

I pitched the idea that SpongeBob and Patrick learn a swearword. Everyone said no. I couldn't even use a bleep. So I…

— Stephen Hillenburg

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

— Richard Dawkins

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound…

— P. J. O'Rourke

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its…

— John Quincy Adams

How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to…

— William Faulkner

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had…

— Marianne Faithfull

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band…

— Thomas Gibson

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me…

— David Duchovny

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

— Gloria Swanson

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

— Haruki Murakami

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

— Christian Louboutin

I'll just try to stay the same, make sure I'm fundamentally sound, especially defensively.

— Xander Bogaerts

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

— Margaret Halsey

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

— M.C. Beaton

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

— Mark Twain

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

— John Rosemond

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

— DJ Premier

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

— Will Rogers

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

— Lewis Carroll