Sound Quotes · Page 85

“The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ”

— John McPhee

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s…

— Jay Asher

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.

— Alan Tudyk

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

— Anonymous

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

— Tom Jones

She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.

— Sara Shepard

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

— Eddie Murphy

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in…

— Dick Dale

That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a…

— William Shakespeare

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better.…

— George Benjamin

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're…

— DJ Spooky

I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die…

— Nas

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to…

— Utada Hikaru

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at…

— Michael Schur

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal…

— Steven Strogatz

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp…

— John Fogerty

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is…

— Hildegard of Bingen

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band,…

— Andrew Bird

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun…

— Walter Murch

These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce…

— Sir John Davies

Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car…

— Robert Breault

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter…

— Anonymous

I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to…

— Ryan McGinness

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

— Raheem Jarbo

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to…

— D. H. Lawrence

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

— Lupe Fiasco

For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave…

— Syd

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

— Robert Bresson

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

— Finn Wolfhard

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

— Julie Powell

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

— Jeff Beck

When I'm working on my music, I take special care to make sure the sound is perfect.

— Yo Gotti

Early CDs, I found, flattened out the sound - it took away all the highs.

— Dave Clark

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

— Bill Hicks

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

— Jeremy Luke

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I…

— Rob Zombie

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

— Wayne Coyne

I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

— Skrillex