Sunny Murray (James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray) Quotes

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

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

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
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• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
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• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

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• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

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

  

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• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  

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• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

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• I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

  

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• I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.

  

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• I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

  

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• The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

  

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• I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

  

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• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  

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• "Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"

  

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• I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

  

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• I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

  

  Sunny Murray
  • Sound
  • Manipulate
  • Interpret