Sound Quotes · Page 60

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as…

— Michael Shaara

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

— Anonymous

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who…

— Donald Dunn

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

— Stephen Colbert

A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

— William Ross Wallace

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

— Montserrat Caballe

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing…

— Tilda Swinton

The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.…

— Wallace Stevens

We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event - of course there are musical…

— James Righton

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip…

— Taylor Swift

I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.

— Johann Johannsson

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room…

— Virginia Woolf

I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a…

— Stanley Kunitz

I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent…

— Matt Smith

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally…

— Nelson Shanks

“A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation,…

— Eniitan Akinola

Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B…

— Nick Hornby

I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song].…

— Sara Bareilles

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy…

— Jimmy Page

Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be…

— Jason Sudeikis

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

— Josh Tillman

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,

— Martin Bashir

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

When you hear the sound of the Hyperloop One, you hear the sound of the future.

— Shervin Pishevar

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

— Thomas Beecham

My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.

— Kristian Bush

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn

The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.

— Ludwig Goransson

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I got an email from somebody who's mad, and from the sound of it it's enough to make this person abandon [Donald]…

— Rush Limbaugh

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

— Eric Ripert

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little…

— An Na

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

— Rachel Maddow

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

— Gloria Swanson