Sound Quotes

• It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Day
  • Engagement
  • Skill

• I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Listening
  • Musician
  • Seeing

• The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Singing
  • Albums
  • Solo

• What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sound
  • Flowers
  • Utter

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Flaws
  • Thee
  • Cracks

• Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Death
  • Free

• And the colors take me down It's no reason to be sad And you leave without a sound It's no reason to be glad...

  

  Steve Kilbey The Church
  • Reason
  • Sound
  • Leave

• Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Lost
  • Deals

• I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Certain
  • Focused
  • Dictionary

• It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Listening
  • Summer
  • Forest

• 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
  • Breath
  • Surrounding
  • Reverberate

• It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Joy
  • Stupid
  • Grateful

• I like the sound a typewriter makes.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Sound
  • Typewriters

• It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Music
  • Reality
  • Support

• 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

• It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Process
  • Numbers
  • Excited

• 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
  • Heart
  • Argument
  • Socialism

• I was used to carrying a mass sound by myself," "not to mention composing everything myself, so it was great and really helpful to get reacquainted with playing in a band again.

  

  Tyondai Braxton Battles
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Playing

• I can’t afford to be tap-dancing between dynamics in the songs. So when I switch on the clean on the same amp, with the same guitar and start strumming something, it’s the sound I want to hear.

  

  Sébastien Lefebvre Simple Plan
  • Sound
  • Hear
  • Dynamics

• I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works...

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Gibson
  • Strat vibrato

• Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Sound
  • Unnecessary

• When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Band
  • Waiting
  • Sound

• There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Sound
  • Bands
  • All-girl

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