Sound Quotes · Page 53

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

— David Hume

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

— Josiah Warren

“In the beginning was the night, But the light spoke wisdom into the world. Let us see, O’ Brother. Let us hear,…

— Joseph Moukarzel

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

— David Carson

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

— R. L. Stine

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

— Frank Iero

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

— Moon Unit Zappa

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that…

— Eric Ries

“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into…

— Isaac Marion

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is…

— Pat Metheny

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band…

— Steven Van Zandt

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke…

— Drew Houston

You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it's the first…

— Orianthi

In the middle of the 20th century, aspirations to sound 'proper' were passionately pursued. Dictionaries as late as the Seventies include many…

— Susie Dent

I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying…

— Chaz Bundick

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly…

— Anonymous

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's…

— James Cromwell

Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their…

— Anonymous

Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.…

— Benjamin Graham

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead…

— Alcee Hastings

In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the 'Lisa Stansfield sound' and I would hope…

— Lisa Stansfield

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in…

— Richard Peck

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to…

— Grace Metalious

There's never been a conscious decision to sound like anybody else. I can't mimic, I don't have that ability.

— KK

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

— Christian Marclay

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

— Marc Ribot

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

— John Kasich

Sound public finances are essential for our country's prosperity.

— Rachel Reeves

The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

— Lesley Sharp

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't…

— Paulo Coelho

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

— Jil Sander

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

— Bennett Cerf

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

— Craig Zadan

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

— Dick Dale

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

— David Mamet

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

— Beck

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

— Umar