Sound Quotes · Page 42

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

— Jane Smiley

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

— Jake Shimabukuro

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

— Penelope Keith

This is going to sound bad but I can't stand people - a crowd of people.

— Jordy Nelson

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

— John C. McGinley

Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing.

— Bear McCreary

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

— Lady Gaga

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.

— Taboo

'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's…

— Jon Voight

You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of…

— Alice Merton

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and…

— Lin Yutang

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of…

— Anne Waldman

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind…

— Dan Hicks

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded…

— Brian O'Driscoll

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there…

— Henry David Thoreau

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just…

— Lalah Hathaway

Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet,…

— Zeno Vendler

I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working…

— Amy Schumer

The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found…

— Christopher Nolan

The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with…

— H. L. Mencken

I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very…

— Mattie Stepanek

The main difference between listening to music on a computer and listening to music on vinyl or disc is not sound quality…

— Tom Junod

I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it…

— Katherine Mansfield

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because…

— Steve McQueen

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

— Chester Bennington

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

— Steve Lacy

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

— John Oliver

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a…

— Lil Nas X

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

— Tracy Morgan

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

— Lou Reed

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

— Narada Michael Walden

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

— Dogen

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six…

— Anonymous

I grew up loving that female '90s country sound - which so much of that were those undeniable girl anthems.

— Carly Pearce

It might sound corny, but honestly, it's worth staying true to your voice. It'll get you places.

— Vidya Vox

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

— Theodor Adorno

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

— Henry David Thoreau