Sound Quotes · Page 97

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

— Liz Phair

I'm just a model. 'Pin-up girl' is out of fashion, but I really like the sound of that.

— Keeley Hazell

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

— LaToya Jackson

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

— Ewan McGregor

He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.

— Umar

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

— Alessia Cara

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

— Valerie June

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

— Kirstin Maldonado

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher…

— Owsley Stanley

I think that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of…

— Mark Ronson

Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the…

— Frederick Lenz

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records…

— Sharon Van Etten

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and…

— Ben Burtt

I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim…

— Jim Shaw

I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.

— Angela Ahrendts

So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you…

— DJ Spooky

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking,…

— Oswald Chambers

Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's…

— Maria V. Snyder

I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's…

— John Bonham

As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of…

— Wendell Berry

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft…

— Linda Ronstadt

There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance…

— William Howard Taft

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she…

— Jacques Roumain

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

— Biz Markie

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have…

— Jimmy Carter

If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy…

— Celia Imrie

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.

— Justin Martyr

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

— Karla Crome

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

— Demetri Martin

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

— Michael Palin

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

— Chris Cornell

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

— Henry David Thoreau

The music that I really jive with is the ELO sound and maybe Wings as well.

— Joe Keery

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

— Hank Williams III

Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn't sound that threatening.

— Sam Fender

...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...

— William Faulkner

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

— Naomi Osaka