Sound Quotes · Page 108

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

— Demetri Martin

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

— Chris Cornell

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

— Justin Martyr

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

— Karla Crome

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

— Biz Markie

The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play…

— Chris Thile

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I…

— Sarah Dessen

I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I…

— Hank Williams III

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections…

— Sean Booth

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through…

— Brian Eno

Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You…

— Dan Feiszli

The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on ­terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions…

— Neil Portnow

I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd…

— Kevin Parker

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…

— Charles Mingus

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.…

— Mark Twain

But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream. "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling…

— Neil Gaiman

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The…

— Ian MacKaye

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually.…

— Charlie Hunnam

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;…

— Warren G. Bennis

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of…

— Lorde

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have…

— Jimmy Carter

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy…

— Celia Imrie

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

— Alessia Cara

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

— Valerie June

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

— Kirstin Maldonado

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

— Umar

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

— LaToya Jackson

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

— Ewan McGregor

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

— Isaac Watts

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

I'm just a model. 'Pin-up girl' is out of fashion, but I really like the sound of that.

— Keeley Hazell

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

— Liz Phair

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

— David Tudor

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't…

— Paulo Coelho

The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

— Lesley Sharp