Jeff Lynne Quotes
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.
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There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
