Sound Quotes · Page 119

Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.

— Michael Gabellini

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

— Nahnatchka Khan

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

— Dan Quisenberry

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

— Bill Ward

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

— Jhene Aiko

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

— C. S. Lewis

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

— Matthew Hussey

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and…

— Trisha Yearwood

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new…

— Charlie Clouser

Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is…

— Benjamin Graham

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that…

— Keith Richards

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first…

— Sloane Stephens

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound…

— Angie Martinez

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals…

— David Gilmour

sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the…

— Geraldine Brooks

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to…

— Nick Cave

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.…

— Anonymous

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,…

— Eddie Van Halen

Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look…

— Jim Gaffigan

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of…

— Billy Collins

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot…

— Martin Freeman

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

— Nicholas Sparks

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

— Billie Burke

I love my mouth guard. I love how it makes me sound like a baby.

— Esther Povitsky

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

— DJ Premier

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

— John Rosemond

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

— Mark Twain

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

— M.C. Beaton

Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

— Lewis Carroll

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

— Will Rogers

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

— Christian Louboutin

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

— Haruki Murakami

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

— Gloria Swanson

Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard