Sound Quotes · Page 55

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I'll just try to stay the same, make sure I'm fundamentally sound, especially defensively.

— Xander Bogaerts

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

— Margaret Halsey

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

— Paul Simon

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

— Kabir

This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like,…

— Mindy Kaling

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But...…

— Kid Rock

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise…

— Sherri Shepherd

I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff…

— Curt Smith

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more…

— Les Paul

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

To me, there's a lot more bottom and 'dirt' with vinyl. When I say dirt, it's good dirt. You need that raw…

— Little Louie Vega

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band,…

— Illinois Jacquet

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star,…

— Dennis Quaid

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe…

— Trent Reznor

I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in…

— Stephenie Meyer

You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry,…

— David Quammen

Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other…

— Seymour Papert

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British…

— Katy B

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by…

— Michael Faraday

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it…

— Frankie Valli

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

— Trombone Shorty

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

— Jackson Browne

Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in…

— Alan Jay Lerner

Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.

— Michael Gabellini

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

— Nahnatchka Khan

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

— Leonard Cohen

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

— Johann Johannsson

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

— Jon Secada

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

— C. S. Lewis

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

— Matthew Hussey

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

— Dan Quisenberry

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

— Bill Ward

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

— Jhene Aiko

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

— Billie Burke