Sound Quotes · Page 99

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

— Ned Sublette

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

— James Dashner

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

— Greil Marcus

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

— Shreya Ghoshal

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

— Anonymous

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as…

— Michael Shaara

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man…

— Muhammad Ali

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to…

— Jerry Saltz

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible…

— M. H. Abrams

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound…

— Warryn Campbell

The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one…

— Julian Treasure

I thought the grunge scene was cool. This is going to sound weird, but I remember doing a concert at a tavern…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

“And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the…

— Ayn Rand

Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't…

— Scott Adams

The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the…

— Otto Weininger

The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say,…

— George Lucas

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips,…

— Ben Affleck

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…

— Thomas Huxley

…if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from…

— Heather O'Neill

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

— Alexander Pushkin

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

— Elvis Presley

I sound like a very old Polish cabbage farmer. Whatever, I'm hot... for my name.

— Esther Povitsky

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

— William T. Piper

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

— Mark White

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

— Charles D. Broad

I don't want to sound trite, but we're all treading a fine line between what's normal and what's not.

— Paul Whitehouse

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

— Jane Levy

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

— Ric Ocasek

Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

When your mind stops working, dont forget to turn off the sound.

— Vikrant Parsai

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

— Albert Einstein

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

— Anonymous

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

— Susan Howatch

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

— Walt Whitman

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

— Katie Price