Sound Quotes

• Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Voice
  • Inside

• The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Heart
  • Argument
  • Socialism

• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• 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

• 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

• Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Echoes

• It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Yourself
  • Sound

• Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Suicide

• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Jazz
  • Female
  • Alcoholics

• Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Looks

• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Music
  • May
  • Alone

• It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.

  

  William McDonough
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Frank

• To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Silence
  • Oars
  • Rowboat

• 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

• It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Way

• I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Thinking
  • States
  • United

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

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Lifestyle
  • Punk

• I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Band
  • Sound
  • The Smiths

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

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Want
  • Son

• When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • People
  • Competition
  • Careers

• A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Important
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  

  Wolfgang Langewiesche
  • Differences
  • Aviation
  • Automobile

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