Sound Quotes · Page 82

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

— Giorgio Moroder

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

— Bill Bailey

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

— Grace Chatto

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

— Bjork

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

— Johnny Ramone

Do not wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the gun.

— Pat Buchanan

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

— John McCain

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

— Vy Higginsen

I don't have session players come in and guitars, I'm doing the drums, I'm doing the scratching, I'm doing every sound you…

— DJ Premier

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.…

— Duncan Green

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or…

— William Cowper

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And…

— Ned Yost

Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for…

— Conan O'Brien

"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness…

— Patricia Aburdene

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of…

— Julian Bream

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing,…

— Aaron Sorkin

How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare…

— Gloria Reuben

My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the…

— Pauline Oliveros

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes;…

— William Shakespeare

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale.…

— Suzanne Collins

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare…

— John Constable

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster…

— Nicki Minaj

“While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain…

— Anonymous

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

— Wesley Eisold

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

— Anonymous

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

— Usain Bolt

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

— Craig Robinson

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

— Shaggy

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

— Arthur Godfrey

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

— Jon Stewart

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.

— Pete Munro

This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.

— Zoe Bell

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

— Tom Robbins

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

— Buddy Wakefield

Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.

— C418

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

— Nick Lowe

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

— Tim Tharp

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

— Thelonious Monk

It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.

— Rumi Neely