Sound Quotes · Page 79

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

— Louise Bogan

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

— Kato Kaelin

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

— Charles Lamb

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

— Dewey Redman

It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

— Urijah Faber

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization…

— John Cage

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In…

— Charles Simic

There was a scene cut out of 'Big Fat Liar' (2002) where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind…

— Frankie Muniz

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make…

— Nick Lowe

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into…

— Firoozeh Dumas

The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the…

— Suzi Quatro

I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think…

— Lurlene McDaniel

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt…

— Salvador Dali

Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m…

— Fernando Pessoa

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was…

— Thomas Friedman

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the…

— Michael Finkel

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies…

— Bobby Scott

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he…

— Cormac McCarthy

We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble…

— Geronimo

Especially with my first album, asking me to choose one sound to represent who I am; it just feels impossible.

— Raye

People don't want classic bands to sound anything other than classic.

— Philip Bailey

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

— David Stras

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

— Ellie Goulding

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

— Jean Racine

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

— Ella Mai

'The Sound Of Silence' taught us that we shouldn't be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

— David Draiman

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

— Aldous Huxley

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

— Alice Ripley

Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

— Laurie Halse Anderson