Sound Quotes · Page 60

There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.

— Taylor Swift

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

— Charles Lamb

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

— Sylvia Browne

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

— Fred Allen

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

— Diogenes

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

— Tiesto

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

— Giorgio Moroder

If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

— Trentemøller

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And…

— Jennifer Harrison

I realised filming in my own apartment that it was nice to come home and have some space. It worked for 'The…

— Rachel Khoo

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you…

— Blake Mycoskie

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured…

— Constant Lambert

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been…

— Serge Schmemann

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the…

— Tim Bishop

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here…

— Ali Banisadr

Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's…

— Veena Sud

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.…

— Nick Lowe

I wish i'd hurt him I didn't do any damage at all-Bella I can fix that-edward I was hoping you would say…

— Stephenie Meyer

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it…

— Deb Caletti

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in…

— Hildegard of Bingen

...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted…

— Tom Franklin

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

— Bill Bailey

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

— Johnny Ramone

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

— Bjork

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

— Grace Chatto

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

— John McCain

Do not wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the gun.

— Pat Buchanan

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

— Vy Higginsen

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

— Wesley Eisold

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

— Usain Bolt

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

— Anonymous

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

— Craig Robinson

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

— Shaggy

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

— Arthur Godfrey

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

— Jon Stewart

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.

— Pete Munro

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

— Tom Robbins