Sound Quotes
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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'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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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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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 idea behind stamped money is sound.
John Maynard Keynes
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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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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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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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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 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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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
William McDonough
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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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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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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
Miles Davis
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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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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
Glenn Miller
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
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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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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
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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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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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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