Sound Quotes · Page 240

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

— Victoria Monet

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

— Alice Ripley

Sound is everything to a musician.

— John Densmore

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

— George Gershwin

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

— Rajneesh

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of…

— Fanny Kemble

Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it.…

— Melissa Febos

How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved…

— Bob Richards

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil,…

— Kirk Hammett

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have…

— Jack Kerouac

There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything…

— James Frey

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

— John Rosemond

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get…

— John Burns

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper…

— Ryan Adams

You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’” added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’” Niphon’s presence and…

— Richelle Mead

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

— John Cage

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours…

— Rudolf Steiner

My band, Pierce the Arrow, started with the singer Brayden as an acoustic act. After having just left my previous band InVictory,…

— Tom Sandoval

I hate to say "found himself" - it sounds so ridiculous.

— Henry Cavill

I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said…

— Olivia Newton-John

I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier…

— Maureen Johnson

I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I…

— Nick Lowe

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

— Grimes

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it…

— Erin Moure

It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I…

— Daniel Lopatin

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as…

— N. T. Wright

Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video…

— John C. Reilly

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

— Richard Rohr

What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very…

— Pixie Lott

I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.

— Danny Amendola

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

— Raheem Jarbo

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

— Bob Einstein

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -…

— Andrew Lau

Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and…

— Sonia Braga

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The…

— Henrietta Mears

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

— Blake Mycoskie