Sound Quotes · Page 110

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

— Frank Dukes

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

— Karthik Subbaraj

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

— John McLaughlin

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become…

— Chely Wright

It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it…

— Joey Fatone

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

— Imogen Heap

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

— David Archuleta

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

— Anonymous

I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an…

— Mark Zuckerberg

For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he…

— Eliot Sumner

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it,…

— Sunny Murray

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped…

— Jacob Young

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give…

— Sean Dyche

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want…

— Peter Greenaway

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make…

— Martin Garrix

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice,…

— Caroline Shaw

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?”…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean…

— Joe Strummer

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along…

— Rob Sheffield

Reyes, what happened?” He‘d been busy nibbling his way to my collarbone, his hot mouth evoking seismic activity at each point of…

— Darynda Jones

Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to…

— David Sarnoff

I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound…

— Jerry Seinfeld

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling…

— DJ Spooky

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the…

— Dave Barry

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

— Miles Davis

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

— Joss Whedon

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound…

— Sally Brampton

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

— Gene Ween

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

— Matthew Carter

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

— Jami Attenberg

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

— Joseph Joubert

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

— Bill Ayers

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

— Paul Taylor

“Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

— Anonymous

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

— Greil Marcus

Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

— Ned Sublette