Sonic Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. — David Bowie
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of… — Iannis Xenakis
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up. — Billy West
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into… — Thurston Moore
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with… — Thurston Moore
Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they donâ€™t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is… — Rabih Alameddine
Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them… — Thom Yorke
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it… — Frank Ocean
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it. — Derek Bailey
Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom — Jeff Buckley
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of… — Iannis Xenakis
That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these… — Kanye West
Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And… — R. Murray Schafer
But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to… — Duncan Sheik
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. — Scott Putesky
With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog. — Neil Shubin
There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for… — Kim Gordon
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism… — Kim Gordon

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