Sound Quotes · Page 58

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play…

— Joe Satriani

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

— John Rzeznik

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

— Dolly Parton

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

— Charles Platt

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

— Michael Wilbon

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

— Ralph Metcalfe

They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings

— Capital STEEZ

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

— Dale Carnegie

I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and…

— Elton John

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with…

— Paul Ryan

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war.…

— Thom Yorke

If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it…

— Patrick Lencioni

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.],…

— David Gilmour

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to…

— Lydia Hearst

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were…

— Peter Warlock

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big…

— Brian Setzer

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just…

— John Sununu

When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet…

— Maddox

Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the…

— Henry Winter

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era.…

— Nicholson Baker

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath…

— Edgar Allan Poe

American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That…

— Seung Sahn

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take…

— Chino Moreno

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak…

— Barack Obama

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

— Francois Truffaut

People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

— Ashley Graham

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

— Chris Isaak

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

— Tony Fadell

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

— Augustus Hare

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

— Ladyhawke

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

— Jeremy Piven

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

— Kit Harington

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

— M. Ward

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

— Melvin Van Peebles

His (Minho) voice is so low that I think the sound comes from the soles of his feet.

— Onew

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

— Cesare Pavese

I'm not really a person who layers so much; I like each sound to have its place.

— Peaches

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

— Roddy Doyle