Sound Quotes · Page 66

I would describe my sound in the field of electro pop. A combination of deep yet simple lyrics coupled with easy beats.

— Ananya Birla

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

— Bennett Miller

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is…

— Charles Bukowski

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

— Oliver Herford

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

— Margaret Heffernan

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

— Keith Gessen

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

— May Sarton

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good…

— Henry Rollins

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For…

— Prince

I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds…

— Anna Paquin

The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming.…

— Jimmy Fallon

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with…

— Steve Vai

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl…

— Angela Carter

I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a…

— Koren Zailckas

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this…

— Beck

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing…

— Gregory Stock

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete…

— Benjamin Graham

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known…

— Petr Skrabanek

What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go…

— Juliette Lewis

At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice,…

— Anna Howard Shaw

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we…

— Robert Frost

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound…

— John Waters

“The noise was like, well, it was like a thousand vampire cats clawing on Plexiglas—it made their teeth hurt.”

— Christopher Moore

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

— Betty Friedan

It's going to sound a bit cocky, but a lot of players don't want to play me in the first round.

— Maria Sakkari

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

— Joe Teti

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

— Noah Webster

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

— Julian Treasure

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.

— Big Sean

I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.

— Daniela Vega

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

— Jimmy Carr

Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.

— India Arie

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…

— Stan Getz

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

— Anonymous

“You make it sound like I’m nothing. And I’m a whole lot more than nothing.”

— Zoe Dawson

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

— Mike Judge