Sound Quotes · Page 73

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

— Adlai Stevenson I

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

— Jim C. Hines

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

— George Osborne

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

— Kate Braverman

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

— Jacqueline Carey

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

— Meryl Streep

My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it…

— Romy Madley Croft

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I…

— Martha Plimpton

McMaster had an engineering physics program and... one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, 'Now…

— Donna Strickland

I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their…

— Kathleen Madigan

Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to…

— Bonobo

I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks…

— Justin Bieber

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right…

— Nick Cave

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment,…

— Steve Winwood

O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the…

— Gaston Bachelard

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter…

— Daniel Tosh

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds…

— Linda Ronstadt

If your wife briefly corrects someone with "Actually, I'm bisexual" during conversation, it hardly sounds like attempting to remain an object of…

— Mallory Ortberg

The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines…

— Benjamin Graham

You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of…

— Michael Medved

I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look…

— Steven Sebring

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

— Anne Carson

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

— Adam Lambert

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just…

— David First

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

— Neil Gaiman

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

— Guillermo E. Brown

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound…

— Alison Goldfrapp

Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school…

— Freddie Stroma

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some…

— Nicolas Cage

I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have…

— Will Ferrell

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

— Elmore Leonard

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

— Jim Elliot

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.

— Miles Davis

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no…

— Gerald Brommer

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

— Cappadonna

Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting.

— Brian Chippendale