Sound Quotes · Page 67

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

— Stephen Baldwin

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never…

— Anonymous

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

— Michael Palin

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

— Demetri Martin

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

— Chris Cornell

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service…

— Michael Caine

My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but…

— Nat Hentoff

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're…

— Alan Sparhawk

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:…

— Brian Eno

Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself…

— Anonymous

Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't ever really think about the genre I'm writing in, I just look at the project that I'm going to be…

— Bear McCreary

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the…

— Thom Yorke

Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs…

— Karl Wolf

I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came…

— Phill Niblock

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production…

— Curtis Jackson

We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds…

— Mitch Lucker

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that…

— Hunter Hayes

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I…

— Ann Goldstein

I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and…

— Stephen Malkmus

That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if…

— Mitch Hedberg

The music that I really jive with is the ELO sound and maybe Wings as well.

— Joe Keery

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

— Hank Williams III

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

— Justin Martyr

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

— Karla Crome

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

— Alessia Cara

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

— Valerie June

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

— Biz Markie

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have…

— Jimmy Carter

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy…

— Celia Imrie

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

— Raymond Bonner

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

— Joanne Harris

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

— Jodi Picoult

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

— Olympe de Gouges