Sound Quotes · Page 85

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

— Joan Smalls

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

— George Bernard Shaw

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

— Arthur Koestler

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

— Zedd

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

— William Shakespeare

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

— Wesley Schultz

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping…

— Gelsey Kirkland

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the…

— Jose Saramago

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way…

— Gary Hoey

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's…

— Joyce DeWitt

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When…

— Mitch Albom

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the…

— Joan Armatrading

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in…

— R. Madhavan

I know that women are smarter than men. I don't wanna sound like I'm on a bandwagon for chicks but I do…

— ASAP Rocky

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...…

— Anonymous

The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so…

— Stewart D. Friedman

I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds…

— George Saunders

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and…

— Bruce Dawe

I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was…

— Taylor Swift

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively…

— Caleb Carr

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

— Ben Gibbard

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

— Jack White

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

— Ally Carter

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

— Meg Cabot

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike…

— Deanna Raybourn

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

— Arnold Jacobs

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

— John Constable

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

— Demetri Martin

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

— Giorgio Moroder

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

— Lucinda Williams

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

— Andy Grammer

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

— Buzz Osborne

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound…

— Cuco

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

— Vivek Ramaswamy