Sound Quotes

• For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Song

• I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Bad
  • Ideas
  • Generations

• I like to make my guitar sound mean.

  

  Mark Thomas Tremonti Alter Bridge
  • Mean
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Play
  • Use
  • Logic

• A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Feel
  • Sound
  • Musician

• I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Want
  • Son

• There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • Sound
  • Ukulele

• I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Simple
  • Mean
  • Causes

• Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Funny
  • Talking
  • Ears

• Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Pleasure
  • Sound
  • Joyful

• I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Voice

• We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Sound
  • Desperately
  • Perfectionists

• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Death
  • Idiot

• I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • Music
  • Sea
  • Looks

• It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sadness

• In music, silence is more important than sound.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Sound

• You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Sound
  • Chemistry
  • Realign

• I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Character
  • Band
  • Guitar

• Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Look
  • Sound
  • Grow

• Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Words
  • Word
  • Untranslatable

• I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Home
  • Corny
  • Steak

• Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

  

  Plato
  • Sound
  • Dialogue
  • Discourse

• Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Good
  • Power
  • Point Of View

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