Sound Quotes
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"I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
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There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds
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I just like feel like this sound feels comfortable and cozy. I’m not anxious about it. I’m more excited to share it rather than anxious about if people will accept it.
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I hate my voice, I sound like a girl. I am in fact a male.
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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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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
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I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
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I don’t really have any problems maintaining something human about the whole thing. I think my sound is pretty organic and human anyway so that’s not too much of a big deal for me.
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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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I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...
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I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
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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 love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.
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The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.
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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.
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When we did our first album, we carved out a sound for ourselves that was uplifting musically, melodically, but with lyrics that were deeply touching and at times sad. We figured out it was the lane we've carved out for ourselves and decided to keep going with what we've accomplished.
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If you don't know who I am, I probably make a sound you may like.
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Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.
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That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
