Sound Quotes · Page 94

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

— Evelyn Glennie

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

— Donald Trump

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

— Tom Verlaine

I don't want to sound too cryptic, but if it wasn't for MMA, I'd probably be in prison.

— Sean Strickland

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

— Anthony Kiedis

I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is.

— Lea Michele

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her…

— Anna Godbersen

Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not…

— Ronnie Radke

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward…

— John Mellencamp

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is,…

— Hank Azaria

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds…

— Carl Jung

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the…

— Brigham Young

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of…

— Joanna Macy

I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the…

— Gavin Friday

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust.…

— Philip Hammond

As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big.…

— Chade-Meng Tan

I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to…

— Greg Peterson

It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which…

— Rem Koolhaas

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That…

— Natsuki Takaya

There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the…

— George R. R. Martin

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

— Eliot Sumner

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

— Brandon Sanderson

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...

— Nikola Tesla

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

— James Blake

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

— Mojo Nixon

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“ Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it. ”

— Karen Russell

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

— John Cage

I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created.

— Zaytoven

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

— Timbaland

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's…

— Cher Lloyd

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

— Eliot Spitzer

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound…

— Mitski

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the…

— Enrique Iglesias

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

— Grant Evans

It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than…

— Julian Treasure