Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these… — David Tudor Copy Share Image
I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time… Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that… — Stijn Streuvels Copy Share Image
Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its… — Daniele Nouy Copy Share Image
To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see,… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Once you find your own sound, you find the strength and courage to stay true to that. Keep going even in moments… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
![“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want…” quote by Don Alias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/don-alias-49528_courses_she-joni-mitchell-wanted-to-have-that-ja_246804.jpg)
