Sound Quotes · Page 73

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that…

— Al Michaels

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

— Simon Barnes

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

— Ryan Hurd

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

— Aries Spears

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

— Martin Amis

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

— Sarah Barthel

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

— Rebecca West

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister…

— Ambrose Bierce

Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all…

— John 5

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I…

— Rogers Hornsby

If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because…

— Gregory Porter

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn…

— Sara Sheridan

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it…

— Aaron Spelling

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really…

— Dave Navarro

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and…

— Travis Morrison

You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's…

— Ben Gibbard

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating…

— Harlan Lane

The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to…

— Milo

“The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da…

— Kamand Kojouri

What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,…

— Dylan Thomas

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money…

— Mark Twain

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of…

— Gloria Estefan

I want to show people how fun Quan can sound on a variety of different beats.

— Rich Homie Quan

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

— Anonymous

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

— David Archuleta

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

— John Eaton

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

— E. B. White

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

— Tupac Shakur

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

— Ty Pennington

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

— Lawrence Taylor

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Silence isn’t the opposite of sound, it is merely its absence.”

— Terry Pratchett

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

— Lesley Garrett

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.

— Tristen Gaspadarek

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a…

— Zaytoven

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

— Steve Lacy

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

— Grimes

I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but I know I'm the best stuntman in Hollywood.

— Hal Needham