Sound Quotes · Page 77

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

— Harvey Mason, Jr

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

— Tom Sturridge

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

— Shawn Mendes

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

— William Baldwin

Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.

— Steve Lukather

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

— Kristen Stewart

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

— Rex Reed

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

— Peter Lynch

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album…

— Queen Latifah

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The first album I ever bought was Santana's 'Abraxas.' Obviously, I was a huge fan of Carlos because he had the unique…

— Robert Trujillo

“Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the…

— Suzy Kassem

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean…

— Thelonious Monk

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and…

— Matthew Healy

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as…

— Goldie Hawn

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But,…

— Lewis Carroll

We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to…

— Tenzin Palmo

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right…

— Ridley Pearson

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean…

— Pete Townshend

We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds…

— Eric Chaisson

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,…

— H. L. Mencken

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called…

— Henry Adams

Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about…

— Arthur Levitt Jr

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

— Christian Bale

Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It's good-news music.

— Kirk Franklin

There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.

— Santigold

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

— Freddie Ljungberg

“Tears are my joy to hide my pain; like thunder hides the sound of rain.”

— Munia Khan

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

— Tom Harrell

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

— Charles Sumner

I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking…

— Kygo

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

— David Steindl-Rast

I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.

— David Lynch

I'm a very proud Irish person, and also used to be an expat. We are a great nation, sound in fact!

— Vogue Williams

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for…

— Drake

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

— Darrell Hammond

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

— bell hooks

Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

— Bella Bathurst