Sound Quotes · Page 52

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

— Sara Bareilles

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

— John R. Levine

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

— Mohsin Hamid

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

— Ron Paul

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

— Roselyn Sanchez

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

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you…

— Gertrude Stein

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite…

— Noam Chomsky

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright…

— Richard Baxter

People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I…

— Kim Shattuck

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted…

— Jarryd James

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated…

— Billy Graham

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a…

— Pharoahe Monch

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and…

— Tilda Swinton

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

— George Orwell

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.…

— Susan Hill

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to…

— Lenny Bruce

Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and…

— Sonia Braga

Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to…

— Laini Taylor

I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he…

— Mitch Hedberg

Joley likes to be scared, and she can't watch them alone." "I don't know how you can make that sound perfectly logical.

— Christine Feehan

I like to change and switch it up. I don't want to sound like anybody else or sound the same. I always…

— J Balvin

What is true and what most folks think is that there is no sound in space. From almost all recollections, I would…

— Sunita Williams

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

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

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

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

— Philip Sidney

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound…

— Bradford Cox

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

— Dolly Parton

I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

— Jimmy Carr

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

— Jan Karon

It's kind of difficult to describe sound as positive, but I feel like music has feeling.

— Koffee