Sound Quotes
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
John Maynard Keynes
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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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
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When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.
Gary LeVox Rascal Flatts
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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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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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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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The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.
B. F. Skinner
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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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We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
Andre Kostelanetz
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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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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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Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
William Baldwin
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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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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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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 wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
Alicia Keys
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Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.
Doug McClure
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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