Sound Quotes · Page 92

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

— R. Kelly

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

— Stephen Hopkins

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

— Earl Sweatshirt

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

— Newt Gingrich

I know this might sound like an exaggeration, but Helio Gracie was to Jiu Jitsu what Albert Einstein was to physics.

— Rickson Gracie

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

— James Newton Howard

“Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are…

— Laura Bynum

I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.

— Rotimi

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always…

— Carter Burwell

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons…

— Tobe Hooper

A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be…

— Aldo Leopold

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or…

— Jose Gonzalez

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of…

— Erykah Badu

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does…

— Pablo Neruda

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card,…

— Alan Dershowitz

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the…

— Jeff Mangum

Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,…

— Jeremiah Wright

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was…

— Betty Smith

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the…

— Kim Edwards

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with…

— Ken Hensley

President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours.…

— Jay Leno

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

— Stephen Malkmus

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad…

— David Russell

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

— Shooter Jennings

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

— Lucinda Williams

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in…

— Justin Bieber

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

— Tim Kaine

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

— Chris Cornell

Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base…

— Richard Sherman

“I never thought I should live to grow blasé about the sound of gunfire, but so I have”

— George Orwell

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I think sound is a huge part of my filmmaking process and it's a part of the narrative for me.

— Ti West

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

— James O'Barr

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

— Howard Schultz

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

— Michala Petri