Shana Alexander Quotes

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

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

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Young
  • Wave

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Elements

• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Me
  • Gossip

• We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Better
  • Doing
  • Sound

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Simple
  • Thought
  • Sound

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Sound

• I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Like
  • Sound

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Lies

• That's definitely more of a classic sound. We've been encouraging him to do it for quite some time and I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses and has decided to show the world how great he can rip on that thing.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.

  

  Jim Doyle
  • Stop

• I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

  

  Keith Carter
  • Photography
  • Memory
  • Materials

• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Sound
  • Gossip
  • Wave