Sound Quotes

• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Security
  • Borrowed
  • Thrift

• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Character
  • Think
  • Embarrassing

• 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

• Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Lifestyle
  • Punk

• Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • World
  • Song
  • Better

• 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'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Pops
  • Pop Music

• The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

  

  William Stafford
  • Earth
  • Bird
  • Behinds

• 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

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

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Words
  • Word
  • Untranslatable

• It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Silence
  • Sound
  • Rhythm

• To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Done
  • Sound
  • Policy

• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Cry
  • Street

• 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

• When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Band
  • Sound

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

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Want
  • Son

• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Jazz
  • Female
  • Alcoholics

• I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Ideas

• 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

• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sound
  • Impossible
  • Crash

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

  

  Wizkid
  • Sound
  • Original
  • Staying

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

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