Sound Quotes · Page 111

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

— Rokia Traore

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

— Michael Arden

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

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

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as…

— Baltasar Gracian

For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with…

— Masha Tupitsyn

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow…

— William Faulkner

I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind…

— King Khan

The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many…

— Angela Cartwright

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her…

— William Shakespeare

He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled…

— Dennis Lehane

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation…

— Gary Saul Morson

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing…

— Laura Miller

All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as…

— Delphine de Vigan

The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics…

— Masha Tupitsyn

You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile…

— Jerry Falwell

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men,…

— Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of…

— David Petraeus

We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As…

— Josh McDermitt

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

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

— Renata Adler

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

— Johnny Depp

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

— Levon Helm

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

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

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

— Melanie Benjamin

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

— Leonard Slatkin

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

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

— Tay Keith

Sound is very important to us, even in our scripts. We write-in tons of sound effects.

— Ross Duffer