Sound Quotes · Page 62

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

— Tim Kaine

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad…

— David Russell

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

— Shooter Jennings

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

— Lucinda Williams

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in…

— Justin Bieber

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

— James Newton Howard

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's…

— Lykke Li

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary…

— Robert Pinsky

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe…

— Dick Dale

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down…

— David Duchovny

You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins…

— Janina Gavankar

I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy…

— Billy Eichner

Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is…

— Philip French

Observe the noise beyond the sound, past a planet green and mostly round; outside the box of ground and sky, where darkness…

— Jamie Timbre

Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer…

— Brad Alan Lewis

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately…

— Karen O

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am…

— Charles Bradlaugh

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't…

— Lukas Haas

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners,…

— Walter de La Mare

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of…

— Anthony McCarten

Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you…

— Carol Channing

If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public…

— Wendy Starland

I know this might sound like an exaggeration, but Helio Gracie was to Jiu Jitsu what Albert Einstein was to physics.

— Rickson Gracie

“Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are…

— Laura Bynum

I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.

— Rotimi

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

— Stephen Malkmus

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

— Edward Boyden

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

— Shawn Phillips

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

— Lilly Ledbetter

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

— Emanuel Ax

“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”

— Evelyn Waugh

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

— Harriet Lerner

He doesn't sound like a guy who's done a onesome, let alone a threesome.

— Adam Carolla

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

— Walter Cronkite

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

— Steven Moffat

I obviously sound like a woman, but I'm not too girly. Real and raw.

— Rubi Rose

Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.

— Jim Gaffigan