Sound Quotes · Page 52

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

— Peter Marino

It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than…

— Julian Treasure

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

— Grant Evans

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the…

— Enrique Iglesias

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound…

— Mitski

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

— Eliot Spitzer

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

— Matt Berninger

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

— Bill Frist

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic.…

— Keith Jarrett

Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He…

— James Hetfield

My amp setup is the same that Ive had for years. Its a Fender Princeton side-by-side with a Fender Tweed Deluxe. Thats…

— Mike Campbell

It might sound like a cliche, but it's just more physical in Premier League, especially those teams from the bottom third where…

— Joel Matip

You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty,…

— Lil Uzi Vert

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds…

— Cass McCombs

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from…

— Eugene McCarthy

I love the whole physical thing in films. It keeps me on my toes, it keeps me awake, it keeps me alive.…

— Sharni Vinson

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be…

— John Edgar Wideman

Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends,…

— Richard Jackson

Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may say it has never yet returned-you cannot…

— Robert Leckie

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse…

— Annie E. Clark

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put…

— H. L. Mencken

Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea…

— Michael Scott

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening…

— Emily Lazar

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

— Arvo Part

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

— Rue McClanahan

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

— Loretta Lynn

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

— Joanna Newsom

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

— Howard Thurman

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

— Marianne Williamson

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

— William Kingdon Clifford

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for…

— Frank Grillo

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

— Vera Nazarian

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

— Carly Pearce

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

— Laurence J. Peter

I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.

— Joe Bonamassa

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

— Hari Nef

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at…

— Nicole Ari Parker

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

— Sean Lennon