Sound Quotes · Page 31

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after…

— Robert Gottlieb

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with…

— Dick Dale

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know,…

— Eminem

“Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable -…

— Ted Nelson

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

— Norman Granz

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't…

— The-Dream

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

— Anonymous

Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

— Craig Benzine

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've…

— Anna Meredith

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

— Alexis Taylor

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows…

— Anonymous

I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording…

— Vashti Bunyan

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do,…

— Michael P. Anderson

If mugs made fart noises coffee shops wouldn't be relaxing, they'd sound like a yoga class in a retirement home.

— Desi Lydic

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks…

— Tom Waits

My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says…

— Robert Davi

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has…

— George Eliot

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the…

— Hannah Arendt

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections…

— Sean Booth

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing.…

— Adam Duritz

I've become more interested in creating a band sound than trying to outshine the other guys.

— Dimebag Darrell

“It flowed and swam around her, filling her blood, and if she could have done so, she would have melted into the…

— Sarah J. Maas