Sound Quotes

I don't like the sound of my voice.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

I think I sound like Barry White.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

It's all about sound. It's that simple.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

I've got that nice raspy sound.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Music is organized sound.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Every sound alarms.