Sound Quotes · Page 64

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

— Raheem Jarbo

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to…

— D. H. Lawrence

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

— Angelina Jolie

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

— Orrin Woodward

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

— Deana Carter

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were…

— Ryan Buell

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the…

— Alan Watts

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little…

— McCoy Tyner

The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to…

— Eva Ibbotson

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

— Don G. Campbell

The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending…

— Eric Maisel

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And…

— Ayn Rand

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

— William Carlos Williams

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in…

— Washington Irving

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it…

— Jan Neruda

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound…

— David Jason

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that…

— Mary Caroline Richards

Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of…

— Jim Butcher

Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound.…

— Morihei Ueshiba

The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed…

— David Stockman

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

— Andy Taylor

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

— Eyvind Kang

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s…

— Jay Asher

“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ”

— John McPhee

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

— Janet Fitch

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

— Michael Gira

King Khan and the Shrines may look and sound bizarre, but don't feel left out; it's not an exclusive club.

— Anthony Fantano

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…

— Sinclair Lewis

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

— Evan Esar

I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

— Alicia Keys

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

— Tony Kanal

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

— Thomas Beecham

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

— Christopher Hitchens