Sound Quotes
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
John Maynard Keynes
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Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
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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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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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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
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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
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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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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
William McDonough
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
Miles Davis
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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
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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
Paul Desmond
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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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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
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
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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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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
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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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NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
Joanne Rowling
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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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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.
Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys
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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.
Haruki Murakami
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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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You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü