Sound Quotes
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I like to make my guitar sound mean.
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He is the most important thing in my music. If The Hacker didn’t exist I’m not sure if I’d be here today. He explained a lot of things to me; it all came from him… I had been obsessed with his sound, because for me his music is the perfect combination of the past and the future. It was the only music I understood because everything he made was so logical for me.
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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.'
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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.
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The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
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Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.
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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.
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I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
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A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
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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.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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Musicians today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.
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I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes...
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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
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If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.
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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.
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I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.
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I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.
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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.
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The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.
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Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
