Sound Quotes
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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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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
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It’s more analog. Well, analog in the sense that it’s more organic. There’s not all these automatic faders and shit like that. You can’t control the sound like you’re able to do in Fredman.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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PE is the sound of naked defiance.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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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.
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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I don’t think it’s about a point of difference, I’d say it’s about being unique because my music isn’t anchored in one sound.
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The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound.
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If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You don't want to sound like Michael Jackson; you want to sound like yourself. The only way you're ever going to get anywhere, and stay there, is by being your own self.
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Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.
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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
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NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
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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.
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It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'
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Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
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Drumming is my main thing but I’ve always been the type of person that I can pull a sound out of any instrument if I’m given a couple of minutes to figure it out.
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I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.
