Sound Quotes · Page 105

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

— Steve Fowler

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

— John Banville

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

— Bob Newhart

I'm really into Steve O'Sullivan and Mosaic/Sushitech with that dub sound.

— Subb-an

We grew up understanding how the analog sound is a driving force for music.

— Rohan Marley

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice…

— Pope Francis

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church.…

— Joel Osteen

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the…

— Robert Morgan

The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors…

— Bodhidharma

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they…

— George Harrison

I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the…

— Joaquin Phoenix

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of…

— Elliott Smith

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound…

— Michael Bolton

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for…

— Anonymous

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from…

— Gregory David Roberts

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the…

— Damon Knight

This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the…

— Gary Lightbody

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn…

— Fran Lebowitz

They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division…

— Shaquille O'Neal

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And…

— Nate Ruess

Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done.…

— Louis Bromfield

I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never…

— Marshall Field

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

— Andrew Nelson Lytle

Sounds good. Drive safe." He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes.

— Jennifer Rardin

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old…

— John Waite

It's not only the wealth of sounds in Omnisphere; You're struck by the fact that you hear magic sound after magic sound.

— Jordan Rudess

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

— Elizabeth Olsen

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

— Kendrick Lamar

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it…

— Sloane Crosley

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

— Bruce McCulloch

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

— Erykah Badu

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

— Keith Jarrett

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

— Alan Parsons

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa