Sound Quotes · Page 114

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

— Josh Tillman

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

— Stephen Colbert

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who…

— Donald Dunn

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

— Montserrat Caballe

A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

— William Ross Wallace

The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

— Thomas Beecham

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake.…

— Wale

This will perhaps sound arrogant but it comes after a lot of thinking about it - there's nobody better at being Simon…

— Simon Amstell

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know…

— Christian Scott

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched…

— Kate Bosworth

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should…

— John von Neumann

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a…

— John Cooper Clarke

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people…

— Ice T

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small…

— Kenny Chesney

We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when…

— Dan Ariely

You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well…

— J. K. Rowling

We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even…

— Pat Steir

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused…

— Sheri S. Tepper

My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot…

— Herb Brooks

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These…

— Alberto Santos-Dumont

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too…

— Ani DiFranco

When you hear the sound of the Hyperloop One, you hear the sound of the future.

— Shervin Pishevar

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.

— Jim Gaffigan

I obviously sound like a woman, but I'm not too girly. Real and raw.

— Rubi Rose

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

— Steven Moffat

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

— Bob Weir

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

— Michala Petri

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

— James O'Barr

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

— Howard Schultz

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I…

— A-Trak

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

— George Duke

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

— Emanuel Ax

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

— Edward Boyden

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

— Shawn Phillips

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

— Lilly Ledbetter

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

— Harriet Lerner