Sound Quotes · Page 55

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

— Sampha

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

— Francesca Annis

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

— Park Won-soon

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

— Elton John

“sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.”

— Haruki Murakami

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

— Groucho Marx

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It…

— Irvine Welsh

My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was…

— Judge Reinhold

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of…

— Dave Grohl

I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical…

— John Cage

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the…

— John Frusciante

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian,…

— Michael McIntyre

“Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard…

— William Faulkner

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents.…

— Anonymous

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that…

— Hunter Hayes

I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you…

— Rajneesh

Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from…

— DJ Spooky

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to…

— Andrew Dost

Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something?…

— Frank J. Fleming

It sounds cheesy but I think my life's kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I'm very, very lucky…

— Hilary Duff

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

— Levon Helm

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

— H. L. Mencken

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

— Cornelia Funke

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much…

— Josh Klinghoffer

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

— Ray Still

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

— Jessie Ware

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

— Lucy Dacus

I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing.

— Demi Lovato

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

— Rod Serling

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

— Muddy Waters

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

— Pat Metheny

Rock shows are loud, so I try to use a sound that is warm on the high frequencies.

— Paul Gilbert

I sound like a total granny, but I have never watched 'Love Island' - it's just not a show that's appealed wildly…

— Angela Scanlon

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

— Michael Azerrad

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

— Richard Masur

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

— Penn Jillette