Sound Quotes · Page 124

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

— Gene Ween

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

— Matthew Carter

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

— Jami Attenberg

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

— Paul Taylor

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

— Joseph Joubert

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

— Bill Ayers

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

— Emanuel Ax

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged…

— Roberto Bolano

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear…

— Teresa of Avila

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative,…

— Henry Louis Gates

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and…

— Melissa Bank

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications…

— Nicolas Malebranche

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer.…

— Brian Wilson

All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound.…

— Woody Norris

[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but…

— Anonymous

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar…

— Anna Quindlen

I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in…

— Zoe Bell

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew…

— William Butler Yeats

That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it…

— A. R. Rahman

“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate,…

— Stephen King

The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte…

— Bobby Hull

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that…

— Joseph Campbell

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.…

— Andrew Marvell

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

— Shawn Phillips

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

— Edward Boyden

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

— Lilly Ledbetter

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

— Harriet Lerner

He doesn't sound like a guy who's done a onesome, let alone a threesome.

— Adam Carolla

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

— Walter Cronkite

“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”

— Evelyn Waugh

I obviously sound like a woman, but I'm not too girly. Real and raw.

— Rubi Rose

Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.

— Jim Gaffigan

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

— Steven Moffat

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

— Bob Weir

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

— Howard Schultz

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

— James O'Barr

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

— Michala Petri

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I…

— A-Trak

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

— George Duke