James Hetfield Quotes

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

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• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Cheri Huber
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  • Voice
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• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  

  Hippocrates
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  • Breath

• Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fighting
  • Sounds
  • Buzzer

• 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
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• 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
  • Foolish

• 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
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• You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Freedom
  • Songs
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• Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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• Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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  • Take Care

• I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

  

  Michael Jackson
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• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
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• Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Language
  • Changed
  • Destroying

• I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Want
  • Films
  • Alien

• 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