Sound Quotes · Page 100

Yeah, I got a lot of inspiration from Three 6 as far as my sound.

— Tay Keith

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting…

— Zawe Ashton

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

— Tony Bennett

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

— Leonard Slatkin

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get…

— Melanie Benjamin

You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!

— The Miz

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

— David Levithan

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

— Bob Newhart

Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign…

— Ann Voskamp

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound…

— Taboo

I wish all guns had blanks, and that's all we shot out of guns, because then I'd recommend that everyone has as…

— Cameron Britton

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess…

— Anonymous

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something -…

— Seth Klarman

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record…

— John Lydon

I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop…

— Tupac Shakur

I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting,…

— Phil Elverum

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious,…

— Madeline Kahn

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant…

— Henry Louis Gates

A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…

— Rose George

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it…

— Jan Neruda

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

— Renata Adler

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

— Henry W. Bloch

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be…

— Brooke Fraser

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

— Levon Helm

I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like…

— Johnny Depp

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If not acting, I could have done art direction, or sound, or camera, or costume for that matter.

— Sanjay Mishra

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's…

— Moby

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

— Neville Marriner

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

— Rajiv Menon

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

— Riff Raff

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

— Claudette Colbert

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

— Michael Learned

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

— Michael Arden

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

— Joanna Newsom

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

— Rokia Traore