Sound Quotes · Page 110

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

— David Lynch

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

— Ken Kesey

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

— Maulik Pancholy

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted…

— Brian Fallon

If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking…

— Peter Farb

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain…

— Steven Morrissey

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had…

— Mary Steenburgen

In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

— Jon Hopkins

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you…

— Wiz Khalifa

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to…

— Luka Sulic

You okay?" "Fine." "Your heart's beating really fast." "Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it." He smiled, and it…

— Rachel Caine

I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,…

— William Cowper

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went…

— Z'EV

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer,…

— Aamir Khan

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really…

— Bjork

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

— Jeff Lynne

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by…

— John Hyams

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

— Patricia Highsmith

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

— Anonymous

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

— Steve Buscemi

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

— Nas

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

— Pam Brown

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

— Jean O'Leary

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

— George Bailey

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.

— Marques Brownlee

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

— Tom Araya

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

— Toru Takemitsu

Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.

— Nalini Singh

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

— Howard Snell

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

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

— Joanna Newsom