Sound Quotes

• NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Sound
  • Scream
  • Professor Mcgonagall

• Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Music
  • Death
  • Beaten

• 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
  • Nature
  • Wind
  • Littles

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • Day
  • Songs

• A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Important
  • Voice
  • Sound

• The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Sound
  • Darkness

• I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.

  

  Z'EV
  • Different
  • Weird
  • Here And There

• Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Passed
  • Ongoing
  • Weirdo

• My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Growing
  • Inspiration
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Wine
  • Lived

• I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Music
  • Lost
  • Wonder

• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• 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.'

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Sound
  • Show
  • Nervous

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Trying
  • Sound
  • Layered

• I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

  

  Z'EV
  • Player
  • Sound
  • Steel

• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Flaws
  • Thee
  • Cracks

• I used to hate the sound of my voice.

  

  Carole King
  • Hate
  • Voice
  • Used

• Maybe the gruffness and anger can be done with a purity of sound.

  

  Josh Groban
  • Done
  • Sound
  • Anger

• Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Words
  • Light
  • Sound

• I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Sound
  • Cliched
  • Soppy

• Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Echoes

• However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Environment
  • Effects
  • Dramatically

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