Sound Quotes · Page 95

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

— Tionne Watkins

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

— Peter Marino

With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the…

— Gideon Defoe

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

— Vera Nazarian

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for…

— Frank Grillo

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

— William Kingdon Clifford

I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

— Joanna Newsom

If you're in a situation where something horrible is happening, you're closing your eyes. You're looking away. You're doing things to try…

— RaMell Ross

Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno…

— Trentemøller

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of…

— Anonymous

I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the…

— Julia Stiles

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make…

— Rick Warren

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how…

— Jack Black

We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want…

— Luka Sulic

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of…

— Julia Davis

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient…

— Oliver Sacks

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you…

— Quincy Jones

We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod.…

— Ilona Andrews

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have;…

— Joe Nichols

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early…

— Elisa Kreisinger

Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So,…

— John August

I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah,…

— Cameron Mathison

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

— Marianne Williamson

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

— Howard Thurman

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

— Rue McClanahan

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

— Loretta Lynn

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

— Arvo Part

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

— Matt Berninger

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

— Bill Frist

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

— R. L. Stine

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

— David Carson

“In the beginning was the night, But the light spoke wisdom into the world. Let us see, O’ Brother. Let us hear,…

— Joseph Moukarzel

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

— David Hume

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

— Josiah Warren

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

— Sean Lennon

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at…

— Nicole Ari Parker

I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.

— Joe Bonamassa