Sounded Quotes
419 quotes by 313 authors
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I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
— Wynton Marsalis
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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
— Wynton Marsalis
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they…
— Viggo Mortensen
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I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded,…
— Susan Orlean
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When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance…
— Susan Orlean
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and…
— Carlos Santana
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded…
— Thomas Sowell
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced…
— Twyla Tharp
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She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it…
— Samuel Beckett
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Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
— Tom Robbins
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
— Salman Rushdie
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Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he…
— Meg Cabot
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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what…
— Robin McKinley
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And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.
— Stan Rice
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people…
— Douglas Coupland
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She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry…
— Regina Doman
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded…
— Albert Camus
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All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
— Neil Gaiman
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