I think more about sounds rather than concepts.

Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow,…

— John Dieterich

I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I…

— Russell Brand

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

— Boy George

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

— Jessica Simpson

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

— Rumi

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

— Dexter Gordon

Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other,…

— Yao Ming

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

— Joanna Newsom

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's…

— Tom Waits

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music…

— Henry David Thoreau

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

— Ilaiyaraaja

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

— Sandra Bullock

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

— Mike Krzyzewski