Sound Quotes · Page 78

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

— Dave Barry

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was…

— Nina Nesbitt

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

— Nas

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now…

— Jeff Beck

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

— Coco Lee

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

— Evan Parker

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

— Anonymous

When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.

— Naga Chaitanya

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is…

— Anonymous

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out,…

— Mickey Mantle

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how…

— Casey Wilson

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it…

— Felix Dennis

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted…

— Terry Pratchett

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of…

— Chuck Close

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making…

— Peter Frampton

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs,…

— Stephen Mallinder

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of…

— Frederick Buechner

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to…

— Mel Gibson

In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some…

— Andrew Bird

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved…

— Bob Richards

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in…

— Paul Lansky

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most…

— Susan Sontag

When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit…

— Burial

I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but…

— Brandon Sanderson

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

— Jane Siberry

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

— Mike May

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

— Sylvia Earle

There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.

— Cindy Chupack

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

— Dick Cavett

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

SILENCE: A State Where Almost NO SOUND Is Made. The Thoughts You Always Want To AVOID Are HEARD in The Silence.

— Pacifiersucker

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

— Bobby Abreu

I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn't sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of…

— Boots Riley

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

— Mason Cooley

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

— Enrique Iglesias

So why then has all my life made no sound and are your eyes closing even now? My life made no sound…

— Chevelle

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon