Sound Quotes
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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
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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.
K. Eric Drexler
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
John Maynard Keynes
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
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You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
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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
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I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
Banksy
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
Miles Davis
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If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.
Liam Payne One Direction
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If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
Seth MacFarlane
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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
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Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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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.
LL Cool J
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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
Glenn Miller
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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.
Kristen Stewart
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
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I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
Stan Getz
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A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
Angelina Jolie
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Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.
Warryn Campbell
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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.
Joanne Rowling