Sound Quotes · Page 117

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

— Jean Racine

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

— Ellie Goulding

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.

— Ella Mai

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

— Alice Ripley

Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

— David Stras

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing…

— Ted Cruz

I project stronger. If you notice the old records - they're much lighter - vocally much lighter in sound than the records…

— Jimmy Scott

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and…

— Tom Waits

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more…

— Napoleon Hill

Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and…

— Dan Smith

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are…

— Christiane Amanpour

When I'm in the studio I just try to zone out and not think of whatever is in the industry, if it…

— Rahki

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream…

— J Balvin

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…

— Thomas Merton

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not…

— Agatha Christie

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed…

— John Ralston Saul

It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust…

— Richard Dawkins

Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or…

— John Wesley

It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Especially with my first album, asking me to choose one sound to represent who I am; it just feels impossible.

— Raye

It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

— Urijah Faber

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

— Dewey Redman

People don't want classic bands to sound anything other than classic.

— Philip Bailey

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

— William Carlos Williams

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

— Mark Kozelek

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

— Noel Gallagher

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

— Anonymous

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

— Mo Ibrahim

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

— Po Bronson

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists…

— Michael Bloomberg