Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

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• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • English
  • Inspiration
  • Meaning

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Young
  • Research
  • Sounds

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Up
  • Say

• I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Always
  • Better
  • Sounds

• What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

  

  Lorde
  • Important
  • High
  • Cool

• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Sounds

• The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Sounds

• We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Nature
  • Ways
  • Sounds

• The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • God
  • Voice
  • Sounds

• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Happy
  • Innocent
  • Sounds

• I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Sounds
  • Composers
  • Timbres

• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Justice
  • Meaning
  • Sounds

• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Death
  • Failure
  • Smells

• Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sounds
  • Title
  • Work Together

• I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Interested
  • Smells
  • Perfumery

• A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Sounds
  • Jamming
  • Cymbals

• You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Learn
  • Silence
  • Sounds

• I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

  

  John Prine
  • Friend
  • Voice
  • Sounds

• Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

  

  George Bailey
  • Exciting
  • Sounds
  • Whistles

• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Sports
  • Result
  • Projects

• Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Power

• I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Purpose
  • Wine
  • Drink

• Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sounds
  • Crack
  • Smells