Sound Quotes

• Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Courage
  • Sound
  • Triumph

• If you don't know who I am, I probably make a sound you may like.

  

  Klayton Albert Celldwelle
  • Sound

• I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Doctors
  • Dollars
  • Disturbed

• 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
  • Education
  • Control
  • Achievement

• 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

• 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

• I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

  

  Akon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Giving

• 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

• I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Science
  • Words
  • Wonder

• 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

• When we first started, in the early eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove drumsticks or screwdrivers under strings to scheme new noises, sure. But initially, open tuning was a technique used to make our cheap guitars sound better. It wasn't academic or conceptual.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Started
  • Guitars
  • Noises

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

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Listening
  • Musician
  • Seeing

• 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

• 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 don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Sound
  • Vintage
  • Sonic Youth

• You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

  

  Lisa See
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Plans

• 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

• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Pool
  • Devices
  • Loudspeaker

• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Music
  • Today
  • Universe

• I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Soul
  • Feels
  • Sound

• I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Funny
  • Stuff
  • Lines

• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Gang

• I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Tree

• I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

  

  Ben Burtt
  • Sound
  • Create
  • Illusions

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