Sound Quotes · Page 96

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

— Hari Nef

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

— Laurence J. Peter

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

— Carly Pearce

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

— Marc Ribot

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

— Christian Marclay

There's never been a conscious decision to sound like anybody else. I can't mimic, I don't have that ability.

— KK

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to…

— Grace Metalious

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

— Moon Unit Zappa

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as…

— Audra McDonald

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will…

— David O. McKay

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

“Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people…

— Miller Williams

I'm chasing a feeling more than a sound and I try to reflect that in my turns of phrases. Growing up in…

— Tyler Childers

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like…

— LL Cool J

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,…

— Basil Bunting

Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know…

— Bernice Rubens

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we…

— Maya Angelou

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over…

— Elizabeth Scott

I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just…

— B.o.B

Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People…

— Hiromi

When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later,…

— Lee Ranaldo

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves…

— Wendy Mass

Barack Obama is putting his team together to take over the Administration. So far, he's got his mother-in-law, who is going to…

— David Letterman

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

— Frank Iero

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

— Beck

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

— David Mamet

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

— Dick Dale

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

— Craig Zadan

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

— Jil Sander

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

— Bennett Cerf

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't…

— Paulo Coelho

The way you look, the way you sound, is always something that you have to circumnavigate.

— Lesley Sharp

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

— John Kasich

Sound public finances are essential for our country's prosperity.

— Rachel Reeves

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

— David Tudor

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

— Isaac Watts

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel