Sound Quotes · Page 76

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

— Andre Gide

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

— Brooke Fraser

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

— King Diamond

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

— Wallace Stevens

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a…

— Samuel Butler

My mother dropped a dish on the floor one day and the sound made me collapse.

— Melody Gardot

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

— John Barbirolli

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say.…

— Gene Simmons

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda…

— Jonny Lang

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music…

— Andrea Corr

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then…

— Jonathan Tropper

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social…

— James Madison

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you…

— John Coltrane

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour.…

— Bob Seger

Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey,…

— Rick Riordan

A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to…

— Sri Chinmoy

On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it…

— Russell Crowe

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to…

— Rob Reiner

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I know this will sound naïve, but I often wonder what America would be like if our national ethos was simply to…

— George Saunders

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a…

— Denis Johnson

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of…

— Rodney Atkins

This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for…

— Taron Egerton

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds…

— Brian Jacques

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

— Chris Young

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

— Jordan Sonnenblick

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm…

— Brittany Snow

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

— Tobias Forge

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

— Fred Ritchin

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

— John Milton

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

— Treat Williams

Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.

— Masta Ace

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to build upon good performances to establish a sound football program.

— Lee Corso

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

— Bad Bunny

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

— Katy Perry

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

— Hillary Clinton