Sound Quotes · Page 64

I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created.

— Zaytoven

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's…

— Cher Lloyd

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...

— Nikola Tesla

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

— James Blake

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

— Mojo Nixon

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

— John Cage

“ Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it. ”

— Karen Russell

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said…

— Plutarch

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story…

— Chinua Achebe

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,…

— Walter Kirn

Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke…

— Jan Hunt

You find what you are best at and stick to it. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't…

— Joan Armatrading

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music…

— Mark Linkous

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of…

— Dick Cavett

There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and…

— Elizabeth Hawes

Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the…

— Richard E. Byrd

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak…

— Erin Morgenstern

I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and…

— Tom Steyer

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's…

— Erykah Badu

There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system…

— Kevin Hearne

In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin -…

— Michala Petri

My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from…

— Rick Riordan

Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a…

— Rami M. Shapiro

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

— Brandon Sanderson

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her…

— Anna Godbersen

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

— Eliot Sumner

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

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

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

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Loretta Lynn

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

— Rue McClanahan

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

— Arvo Part

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

— Bill Frist

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

— Matt Berninger

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

— Vera Nazarian

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Frank Grillo

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

— Grant Evans