Jeff Lynne Quotes
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
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'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.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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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.
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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.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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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.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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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.
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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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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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Because if anything is clear in the aftermath of the Reformation, it has to be this: we human beings can interpret the Bible to say and mean an awful lot of different things. We can very easily confuse “The Bible says” with “I say the Bible says,” which we can then equate with “God says.
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There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
