Sound Quotes · Page 78

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

— Wynton Marsalis

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

— Karl Kraus

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

— Richard Bach

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

— Jon Hopkins

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

— James Blake

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound…

— Gary McCord

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

— Anonymous

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can…

— Sherwood Smith

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like…

— Kristen Stewart

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give…

— Luke Grimes

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has…

— Ty Simpkins

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds…

— Lukas Haas

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound,…

— Cecilia Bartoli

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people…

— Matt Tong

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the…

— Ann Patchett

So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been…

— Moshe Kasher

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive…

— Caitlin Moran

Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands…

— DJ Spooky

Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a…

— Sean Mahon

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a…

— Eloisa James

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates…

— Henry David Thoreau

Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he…

— Patti Smith

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

— Chris Thile

I think the love of the people and my capacity to love them back has much to do with my sound health.

— Dharmendra

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

— Bruce Hornsby

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.

— Stephanie Ellis

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

— Stephenie Meyer

It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

— Melissa Fumero

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get…

— Jacqueline Fernandez

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top…

— Paul Hawken

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum…

— Joey Sturgis

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

— Meher Baba

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

— Paul Gauguin

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

— George Gershwin

Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

— Ray Romano

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

— Amy Goodman

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

— Murray Head