Sounds Quotes · Page 11

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

— Rotimi

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

— Steve Rushin

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

— Bonobo

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

— Chris Bailey

There's a couple of fills on the 'Head Job' album. The title track sounds huge, I love it, and there's a few…

— Phil Rudd

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of…

— Jarvis Cocker

“A daily appointment with mother nature keeps one from booking an appointment with the doctor.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always…

— Josie Loren

On 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' I must insist that the sounds of the instrumentation are crucial to reflect what the movie should…

— Alexandre Desplat

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then,…

— Shekhar Kapur

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat.…

— Alison Moyet

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of…

— Pat Mastelotto

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A.,…

— Melissa Ordway

“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent…

— Anonymous

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in…

— Bob Shacochis

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's…

— Steve Jurvetson

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

— Tom Verlaine

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

— John Burroughs

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's…

— Sampha

I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.

— Tom Green

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.”

— Patrick McGrath

I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.

— Kali Uchis

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf…

— Tom Kenny

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

— Charles Lamb

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

— Sinbad

There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people…

— Richie Sambora

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

— Zoe Sugg

It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.

— Lindsey Stirling

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.

— Maajid Nawaz

No matter how many times I hear the sound of your voice, it always sounds brand new.

— Joyce Oscar

I don't like the word provocateur. It sounds like a social disease coming from France.

— Gaspar Noe

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's…

— George Harrison

I just want to instill love into everyone's hearts. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true.

— Mj Rodriguez

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the…

— E. L. Doctorow

Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.

— Emma Kenney

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick,…

— Raymond Kelly

College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7,…

— Rob Morrow