Sound Quotes · Page 62

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

— Walter Huston

I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

— Washed Out

Some will say I don't sound like past mayors or look like them or think like them, and I say yes, I…

— Maya Wiley

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

— Charlotte Caffey

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is…

— Bill Shankly

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds…

— Rian Johnson

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

— Thomas Browne

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

— Pauline Oliveros

How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into…

— Joyce Carol Oates

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that…

— Mike Gordon

“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always…

— Suzy Kassem

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in…

— Blake Mills

I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can…

— Hoodie Allen

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such…

— Corey Feldman

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our…

— Bhagat Singh

One of the things that I loved about when I met my husband was that he picked me up and he paid…

— Sutton Foster

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like…

— Nick Cave

The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested…

— Alan Tower Waterman

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary…

— Isaac Asimov

Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well,…

— Maria V. Snyder

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for…

— Hippocrates

he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after…

— Diana Wynne Jones

If there's ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it's 'Frampton Comes Alive.'

— Peter Frampton

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

— Frank Darabont

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

— Paul Valery

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

— Ken Livingstone

“And the waves will sound to them as they did to us the first time we heard them.”

— Bill Clegg

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

— Andris Nelsons

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

— Chris Colfer

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

— William James

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

— Bill Frisell

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

— Chip Conley

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

— Frederick Seidel

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

— Ronald Reagan

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

— John Mahoney

“Life is a bell، how you ring it's sound going to come back to you.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

— Graham Norton